Deep Lake (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 3861

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (61.2° N, 120.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.6° S, 38.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• bioclastic or reefoid biostromes and bioherms

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. W. Stearn. 1966. Upper Devonian stromatoporoids from southern Northwest Territories and northern Alberta. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada 133:35-68 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84006: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Stictostroma maclareni
Stictostroma maclareni Stearn 1966 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora cygnea
Stromatopora cygnea Stearn 1963 stromatoporoid sponge