Norman Wells, Mackenzie River: Givetian - Frasnian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831
Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801
Scoliopora sp. Lang et al. 1940
Anthozoa - Charactophyllidae
Alaiophyllum mackenziense n. sp. Pedder 1963
Stromatoporoidea - Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Hermatostroma sp. Nicholson 1886
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Clathrocoilona abeona
Galloway 1960
Stromatoporella damnoniensis
Galloway 1960
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporellida - Idiostromatidae
Idiostroma sp. Winchell 1867
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora planulata
Galloway 1960
Stromatoporoidea - Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora ramosa (Phillips 1841)
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalus (Straparollus) sp. (de Montfort 1810)
original and current combination Straparollus
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Northwest Territories
Coordinates: 65.3° North, 126.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.4° South, 36.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian
Key time interval:Givetian - Frasnian
Age range of interval:387.70000 - 372.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kee Scarp
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: lower 40 m of the formation, Givetian-Early Frasnian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 2084
Database number:83978
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-09-12 05:06:05 Last modified:2008-09-12 08:06:05
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
28134. A. E. H. Pedder. 1963. Alaiophyllum mackenziense sp. nov., a Devonian tetracoral from Canada. Palaeontology 6(1):132-135 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

28257 J. J. Galloway. 1960. Devonian stromatoporoids from the Lower Mackenzie Valley of Canada. Journal of Paleontology 34(4):620-636 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]