Goose Fiord, Ellesmere Island, section FA (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.6° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 17.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Fiord Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• Late Emsian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic limestone

• more restricted platformal facies

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 84224: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Stromatoporella perannulata
Stromatoporella perannulata stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Petridiostroma sp.
Petridiostroma sp. Stearn 1992 stromatoporoid sponge