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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoida indet. Troschel 1872 sea urchin | |
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetopsis krimholzi demosponge | |
Dehornella sp. Lecompte 1952 demosponge | |
Shuqraiopsis abenakiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Shuqraiopsis abenakiensis n. gen. n. sp. demosponge | |
Eustrobilus sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge | |
Calcarea | |
Peronidella demascotaensis calcareous sponge | |
Hydrozoa | |
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956 | |
Anthozoa | |
Actinastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral | |
Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823 stony coral |