Upper Keg River pinnacle reefs (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 2452

Where: British Columbia, Canada (59.2° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.7° S, 40.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Keg River Formation), Early/Lower Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

• Lower Givetian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified, dolomitic limestone

• isolated downslope pinnacle reefs seaward from the Presqu'ile Barrier, dominated by bulbous and tabular stromatoporoids

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: R. A. McLean. 1997. Middle Devonian rugose coral faunas in northeastern British Columbia and District of Mackenzie, western Canada. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, Seccion Geologica 92:289-300 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84238: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Houershanophyllum "sp. A"
Houershanophyllum "sp. A" Yü and Liao 1978 horn coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Xystriphyllum "sp. B", Lyrielasma "sp. A", Grypophyllum subtile, Grypophyllum crickmayi
Xystriphyllum "sp. B" Hill 1939 horn coral
Lyrielasma "sp. A" Hill 1939 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
Sociophyllum "sp. A"
Sociophyllum "sp. A" Birenheide 1962 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Nadotia "sp. A", Dendrostella trigemme
Nadotia "sp. A" Tsyganko 1974 horn coral
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
Temnophyllum richardsoni
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Lythophyllum "sp. C"
Lythophyllum "sp. C" Wedekind 1925 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
Lekanophyllum "sp. A"
Lekanophyllum "sp. A" Wedekind 1923 horn coral