Blackstone River (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1925

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (61.1° N, 122.6° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 38.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kakisa Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• 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: C. W. Stearn. 1966. Upper Devonian stromatoporoids from southern Northwest Territories and northern Alberta. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada 133:35-68 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84005: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.09.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Trupetostroma kakisaense n. sp. Stearn 1966 stromatoporoid sponge