Also known as Reef 108
Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (43.7° N, 60.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 25.2° N, 0.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Baccaro Member (Abenaki Formation), Oxfordian (161.5 - 154.8 Ma)
• core 5: 4389-4398 m
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks
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 | |
Hydrozoa | |
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956 | |
Anthozoa | |
Stylina sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
? Microsolena sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral | |
Calcarea | |
? Porosphaera sp. Steinmann 1878 calcareous sponge | |
? Peronidella sp. Hinde 1893 calcareous sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge | |
Lithistida indet. demosponge | |
Hexactinellida | |
Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge |