Also known as Fagerstrom #53
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)
• Not explicitly stated as Emsian in this ref; however, it is in Ludvigsen (1986). [JA: the Formosa Reef Limestone is actually Eifelian, see Edinger et al. 2002]
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, gray reef rocks and lime mudstone
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 3853: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 10.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Fimbrispirifer divaricatus Hall 1857 | |
"Elytha formosensis" = Elita
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"Meristella nasuta" = Meristina nasuta, Meristella subrotunda, Meristella angustisinuata, Meristella barrisi
"Meristella nasuta" = Meristina nasuta Conrad 1842 | |
Camarotoechia tethys Billings 1860 | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Mourlonia confertinemilata" = Pleurorima confertinemilata
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Bivalvia | |
? Mytilidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 mussel Genus A sp. A - originally entered as "? Mytilidae indet."
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Trilobita | |
"Dechenella (Dechenella) ? halli" = Monodechenella halli
"Dechenella (Dechenella) ? halli" = Monodechenella halli Stumm 1953 trilobite subgn. (Dechenella) - originally entered as "Dechenella ? halli"
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Anthozoa | |
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Stromatoporoidea | |
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