Hoosier Ridge, Kee Scarp reef (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 3869

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (65.4° N, 127.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 36.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kee Scarp Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. J. Galloway. 1960. Devonian stromatoporoids from the Lower Mackenzie Valley of Canada. Journal of Paleontology 34(4):620-636 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84311: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.10.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Trupetostroma warreni stromatoporoid sponge