Bird Fiord, Ellesmere Island (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (77.2° N, 86.6° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 16.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Polygnathus patulus conodont zone, Bird Fiord Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• lower formation, uppermost Emsian; PJW: Polygnathus patulus is uppermost Emsian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy limestone and lithified, calcareous siltstone

• bioclastic sandy limestones and calcareous siltstones with minor shale and argillaceous siltstone

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 84228: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Syringostromatidae
Atopostroma distans
Atopostroma distans stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Tienodictyidae
Pseudoactinodictyon conglutinatum
Pseudoactinodictyon conglutinatum Prosh and Stearn 1996 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon ellesmerense
Clathrodictyon ellesmerense stromatoporoid sponge