Moon Lake (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (65.6° N, 127.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° S, 36.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ramparts Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Stringocephalus burtini 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 84323: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.10.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Trupetostroma maillieuxi stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora cf. huepschii Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Syringostromatidae
Parallelopora ostiolata Bargatsky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge