Also known as Reef 114

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (43.7° N, 60.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 13.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Artimon Member (Abenaki Formation), Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)

• Perhaps ranging into Hauterivian, core 1 (3422.2-3429.3 m)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: L. Eliuk and R. Levesque. 1989. Earliest Cretaceous sponge reef mounds, Nova Scotia Shelf (Shell Demascotia). In H. H. J. Geldsetzer, N. P. James, and G. E. Tebbutt (eds.), Reefs, Canada and adjacent areas. Canadian Soc. Petrol. Geologists, Memoir 13:713-720 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45348: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.10.2004, edited by Uta Merkel

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