Demascota G-32 well, Coral-sponge bioherm, Nova Scotia (Jurassic of Canada)

Also known as Reef 109

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (43.7° N, 60.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 11.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baccaro Member (Abenaki Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• core 2: 3607-3615 m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified reef rocks

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: L. F. Jansa, G. Termier, and H. Termier. 1982. Les biohermes a algues, spongiaires et coraux des series carbonatees de la flexure bordiere du "paleoshelf" au large du Canada oriental [Algal-sponges-coral bioherms of the carbonate series of the flexural border of the "paleoshelf" of offshore Canada]. Revue de Micropaleontologie 25(3):181-219 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67978: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.12.2006

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Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Echinoidea
 Echinoida -
Echinoida indet. Troschel 1872 sea urchin
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
Dehornella sp. Lecompte 1952 demosponge
 Lithistida - Astylospongiidae
Shuqraiopsis abenakiensis n. gen. n. sp. demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Theonellidae
Eustrobilus sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
Peronidella demascotaensis calcareous sponge
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823 stony coral