Sor Fiord, Ellesmere Island, section EA (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (77.3° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 7.3° S, 19.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Polygnathus dehiscens conodont zone, Eids Formation, Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)

• upper Eids Formation, lowermost Emsian. PJW: Was misentered as Eids Fiord

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified wackestone and lithified, calcareous siltstone

• dark gray, calcareous siltstone and mudstone with interbeds of fossiliferous lime wackestone and isolated 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 84226: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Syringostromellidae
Salairella prima
Salairella prima Khromykh 1971 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora polaris, "Stromatopora cf. hupschii" = Stromatopora huepschii
Stromatopora polaris stromatoporoid sponge
"Stromatopora cf. hupschii" = Stromatopora huepschii Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge