Also known as Fagerstrom #1
Where: Ontario, Canada (44.0° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 27.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Formosa Reef Limestone Member (Amherstburg Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)
• JA: originally entered as Emsian, but the Formosa Reef Limestone is Eifelian (see Edinger et al. 2002)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, gray reef rocks and lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. A. Fagerstrom. 1961. The fauna of the Middle Devonian Formosa Reef Limestone of southwestern Ontario. Journal of Paleontology 35(1):1-48 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3844: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 10.08.1999, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Proetus (Crassiproetus) crassimarginatus" = Crassiproetus crassimarginatus
"Proetus (Crassiproetus) crassimarginatus" = Crassiproetus crassimarginatus Hall 1843 trilobite subgn. (Crassiproetus)
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Cephalopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail | |
"Mourlonia confertinemilata" = Pleurorima confertinemilata
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Rhynchonellata | |
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Fimbrispirifer divaricatus Hall 1857 | |
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Cranaena romingeri Hall 1863 | |
Strophomenata | |
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Anthozoa | |
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