Atrypoidea bioherma Community, Upper Silurian, Arctic Canada (Silurian to of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (73.0° N, 93.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 32.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)

• Douro Formation on Somerset Island and Barlow Inlet Formation on Devon Island. Age is Upper Silurian, "Ludlovian and possibly Pridolian."

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• "..brachiopod appears to have favored life in sheltered niches in bioherms...A BA 2 or shallow BA 3 assignment is reasonable."
• "Community formed almost entirely of A. bioherma is confined to bioherms. The beds between the bioherms contain A. foxi."

Primary reference: A. J. Boucot. 1999. Some Wenlockian-Geddinian, chiefly brachiopod dominated communities of North America. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 549-591 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24788: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Atrypoidea bioherma, Atrypoidea foxi