Stanley Point, Brodeur Peninsula Tabulate Corals: Late/Upper Ordovician, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites niagarensis
Favosites cf. favosus Goldfuss 1826
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Nunavut
Coordinates: 73.0° North, 89.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.8° North, 40.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
*Period:Late/Upper Ordovician
Key time interval:Late/Upper Ordovician
Age range of interval:458.40000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Found by Freuchen 1924; illustrated and described by Teichert 1937.
Metadata
Database number:24215
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:T. Hanson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-08-02 09:57:52 Last modified:2002-08-02 12:57:56
Access level:the public Released:2002-08-02 09:57:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6817. A. K. Miller, W. Youngquist, and C. Collinson. 1954. Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island. Geological Society of America Memoir 62:1-234 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]