Also known as Reef 3867
Where: Floyd County, Iowa (43.1° N, 93.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 37.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Nora Member (Shell Rock Formation), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• "first Actinostroma Bed"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: J. E. Sorauf. 1998. Frasnian (Upper Devonian) rugose corals from the Lime Creek and Shell Rock Formations of Iowa. Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(355):1-159 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 83952: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.09.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Pachyphyllum gregarium horn coral
Pachyphyllum websteri horn coral
Macgeea concinnula n. sp. Sorauf 1998 horn coral | |
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Disphyllum conjugans Sorauf 1998 horn coral | |
Tarphyphyllum cylindricum n. sp., Tabulophyllum "sp. A", Tabulophyllum "sp. B", Tabulophyllum buccinum n. sp.
Tarphyphyllum cylindricum n. sp. Sorauf 1998 horn coral
Tabulophyllum "sp. A" Fenton and Fenton 1924 horn coral
Tabulophyllum "sp. B" Fenton and Fenton 1924 horn coral
Tabulophyllum buccinum n. sp. Sorauf 1998 horn coral | |
| Stromatoporoidea | |
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Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |