Demascota G-32 well, Stromatolite-Tubiphytes bioherm, Nova Scotia (Jurassic of Canada)

Also known as Reef 108

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (43.7° N, 60.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 10.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baccaro Member (Abenaki Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• core 5: 4389-4398 m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• a deeper neritic environment

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: L. F. Jansa, G. Termier, and H. Termier. 1982. Les biohermes a algues, spongiaires et coraux des series carbonatees de la flexure bordiere du "paleoshelf" au large du Canada oriental [Algal-sponges-coral bioherms of the carbonate series of the flexural border of the "paleoshelf" of offshore Canada]. Revue de Micropaleontologie 25(3):181-219 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67976: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.12.2006

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Demospongiae
 Lithistida -
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
? Peronidella sp. Hinde 1893 calcareous sponge
 Lithonida - Minchinellidae
? Porosphaera sp. Steinmann 1878 calcareous sponge
Hexactinellida
  -
Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
? Microsolena sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956