Ellesmere Island, section CC: Emsian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea
- Stromatoporellida
- Stromatoporellidae
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Stictostroma gorriense
Stearn 1995
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Stromatoporoidea
- Stromatoporida
- Stromatoporidae
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Stromatopora polaris
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Nunavut |
Coordinates: | 77.3° North, 85.8° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 9.5° South, 16.6° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Early Devonian |
Stage: | Emsian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 2 |
Key time interval: | Emsian | ||
Age range of interval: | 407.6 - 393.3 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Blue Fiord |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
Lithology description: brownish gray to brown nodular limestones and lesser interbedded gray calcareous mudstones and shales, with large stromatoporoid-bearing bioherms | |
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
Database number: | 84040 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2008-09-16 05:23:35 | Last modified: | 2008-09-16 08:23:35 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-01-08 10:39:56 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
28152. | E. Prosh and C. W. Stearn. 1996. Stromatoporoids from the Emsian (Lower Devonian) of Arctic Canada. Bulletins of American Paleontology 109(349):1-65 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |