Branching tabulate coral community, Nahanni Fm. (Devonian to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (61.3° N, 124.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.3° S, 38.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Nahanni Formation, Eifelian to Eifelian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; peloidal, argillaceous lime mudstone

• "slightly argillaceous, slightly dolomitic bio + pel micrites, minor sparry calcarenites. shelf edge. BA3"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. P. A. Noble and R. D. Ferguson. 1971. Facies and Faunal Relations at Edge of Early Mid-Devonian Carbonate Shelf South Nahanni River Area, NWT. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 19(3):570-588 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 661: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Noble and Ferguson, 1971"
unclassified
  -
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
a few massive stromatoporoids
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet. tabulate coral
various tabulate, more than 1 genera
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Xystriphyllum sp. Hill 1939 horn coral
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
ostracodes
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Emanuella sp. Grabau 1923
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Atrypida - Carinatinidae
Gastropoda
 Streptoneura -
? Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail
gastropods - originally entered as "? Archaeogastropoda indet."
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoids