Fort Good Hope, Rensselandia zone (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (66.3° N, 128.6° W: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 35.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Ramparts" Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Rensselandia laevis zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; 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 84320: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.10.2008

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Syringostromatidae
Parallelopora pellucida stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Taleastroma conicomamillata stromatoporoid sponge
Taleastroma vitreum n. sp. Galloway 1960 stromatoporoid sponge