Also known as Reef 3821
Where: Alberta, Canada (54.9° N, 115.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° S, 41.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Swan Hills Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• units VI-IX (Frasnian)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: N. R. Fischbuch. 1970. Devonian reef-building stromatoporoids from western Canada. Journal of Paleontology 44(6):1071-1084 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81595: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea | |
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Trupetostroma cervimontanum, Trupetostroma pseudopingue, Trupetostroma mclearni, Trupetostroma keratodendroides, Trupetostroma cf. tenue
Trupetostroma cervimontanum stromatoporoid sponge
Trupetostroma pseudopingue stromatoporoid sponge
Trupetostroma mclearni stromatoporoid sponge
Trupetostroma keratodendroides Fischbuch 1970 stromatoporoid sponge
Trupetostroma cf. tenue Stearn 1961 stromatoporoid sponge | |
? Syringostroma confertum stromatoporoid sponge
? Syringostroma costulatum stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stachyodes spongiosa stromatoporoid sponge
Stachyodes thomasclarki Stearn 1963 stromatoporoid sponge |