Truro Island, biostrome (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 3872

Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.3° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° S, 20.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• uppermost Emsian; originally Unnamed; however, this should be the upper Blue Fjord.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• coral-stromatoporoid biostrome, locally up to 6 m thick

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 84231: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma "sp. A"
Actinostroma "sp. A" Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora hensoni n. sp.
Stromatopora hensoni n. sp. Prosh and Stearn 1996 stromatoporoid sponge