Gas Keg Ridge (Devonian of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.3° N, 123.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.4° S, 43.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dunedin Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Upper Eifelian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous limestone

• a tongue of open shelf facies at the base of the Presqu'ile Barrier Reef

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. A. McLean. 1997. Middle Devonian rugose coral faunas in northeastern British Columbia and District of Mackenzie, western Canada. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, Seccion Geologica 92:289-300 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84250: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.10.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Lythophyllum "sp. A" Wedekind 1925 horn coral
 Stauriida - Spongophyllidae
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae