Southesk-Cairn complex, Sawtooth Mountain (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 3849

Where: Alberta, Canada (52.5° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° S, 43.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cairn Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. W. Stearn. 1961. Devonian stromatoporoids from the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Journal of Paleontology 35(5):932-948 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83647: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Tienodictyidae
Hammatostroma albertense n. gen. n. sp.
Hammatostroma albertense n. gen. n. sp. Stearn 1961 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Anostylostromatidae
Anostylostroma vesiculosum n. sp. Stearn 1961 stromatoporoid sponge