Where: British Columbia, Canada (57.8° N, 125.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 69.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Road River Group, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• upper Road River Group, 136-141 m above the base of the siltstone unit, latest Llandovery or Wenlock
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, J. L. Nelson, and B. S. Norford. 1998. Silurian hexactinellid sponges from northern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 72(2):202-220 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120526: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Hexactinellida | |
Diagoniella sp., Hexatractiella pseudonevadensis n. sp., Hexatractiella nevadensis, Protospongia conica, Gabelia ? pedunculus
Diagoniella sp. Rauff 1894 glass sponge
Hexatractiella pseudonevadensis n. sp. Rigby et al. 1998 glass sponge
Hexatractiella nevadensis Rigby and Stuart 1988 glass sponge
Protospongia conica Rigby and Harris 1979 glass sponge
Gabelia ? pedunculus Rigby and Murphy 1983 glass sponge | |
| Demospongiae | |
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Wareiella typicala Rigby and Harris 1979 demosponge | |