Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.6° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 17.6° 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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporella perannulata stromatoporoid sponge | |
Petridiostroma sp. Stearn 1992 stromatoporoid sponge |