Where: Nunavut, Canada (73.0° N, 91.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 32.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Douro Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• formerly referred to Read Bay Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and O. A. Dixon. 1979. Sponge fauna of the Upper Silurian Read Bay Formation, Somerset Island, District of Franklin, Arctic Canada. 53(3):587-627 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119860: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Somersetella conicula n. gen. n. sp., Somersetella digitata n. sp.
Somersetella conicula n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Dixon 1979 demosponge
Somersetella digitata n. sp. Rigby and Dixon 1979 demosponge | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral | |
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Coenites sp. Eichwald 1829 tabulate coral | |
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Mucophyllum sp. Etheridge 1894 horn coral | |
Trilobita | |
Encrinurus sp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Ferganella sp. Nikiforova 1937 | |
Atrypoidea sp. Mitchell and Dun 1920 |