Also known as Reef 1469

Where: Custer County, Idaho (44.4° N, 114.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.6° S, 49.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dark Dolomite Member (Jefferson Formation), Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• late Frasnian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, dolomitic floatstone and lithified, dolomitic wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Four biofacies recognized. Combined in list

Primary reference: P. E. Isaacson, M. D. McFaddan, E. A. Measures and S. L. Dorobek. 1989. Coral-stromatoporoid carbonate buildup succession, Jefferson Formation (Late Devonian), central Idaho, U.S.A. In H. H. J. Geldsetzer, N. P. James, and G. E. Tebbutt (eds.), Reefs, Canada and adjacent areas. Canadian Soc. Petrol. Geologists, Memoir 13:471-477 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45302: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.10.2004

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