Eids Fiord, Ellesmere Island, section U-9 (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (77.3° N, 86.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.1° S, 19.6° 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 entered 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 84227: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Gerronostroma septentrionalis
Gerronostroma septentrionalis Prosh and Stearn 1996 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Glyptostromoides simplex
Glyptostromoides simplex stromatoporoid sponge