Ellesmere Island, section IB: Emsian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Gerronostroma septentrionalis Prosh and Stearn 1996
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon ellesmerense
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporida - Syringostromellidae
Salairella prima Khromykh 1971
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora polaris
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Nunavut
Coordinates: 77.3° North, 85.9° 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:84081
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-09-17 02:25:23 Last modified:2008-09-17 05:25:23
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]