Dyke Acland Bay, Bathurst Island, section B42A (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.1° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° S, 20.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Unnamed Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• lower formation, uppermost Emsian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified 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 84235: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora hensoni Prosh and Stearn 1996 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Plectostroma salairicum Yavorskii 1930 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon ellesmerense stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Syringostromatidae
Parallelopora campbelli stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Coenostromatidae
Habrostroma proxilaminatum stromatoporoid sponge