Ellesmere Island, section CH (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (77.3° N, 85.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° S, 16.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Fiord Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• brownish gray to brown nodular limestones and lesser interbedded gray calcareous mudstones and shales, with large stromatoporoid-bearing bioherms

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Prosh and C. W. Stearn. 1996. Stromatoporoids from the Emsian (Lower Devonian) of Arctic Canada. Bulletins of American Paleontology 109(349):1-65 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84079: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Glyptostromoides simplex, Stromatopora polaris
Glyptostromoides simplex stromatoporoid sponge
Stromatopora polaris stromatoporoid sponge