GSC C12470, C12471 Sor Fiord, Ellesmere Island (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (77.3° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 16.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Fiord Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• upper Blue Fiord Formation, near the top of the Emsian part

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous limestone and lithified, calcareous shale

• dark gray-brown to dark gray, slightly argillaceous, micritic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby. 1976. A new heteractinid sponge from southwestern Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 13:120-125 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121048: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Astraeospongiidae
Stellarispongia aspera n. gen. n. sp.
Stellarispongia aspera n. gen. n. sp. Rigby 1976