Goose Fiord, Ellesmere Island, section FA: Late Emsian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea
- Stromatoporellida
- Stromatoporellidae
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Stromatoporella perannulata
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Stromatoporoidea
- Clathrodictyida
- Gerronostromatidae
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Petridiostroma sp.
Stearn 1992
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Nunavut |
Coordinates: | 76.6° North, 88.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 8.8° South, 17.7° 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: | Late Emsian | ||
Age range of interval: | 398.3 - 393.3 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Blue Fiord | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Late Emsian |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | dolomitic lithified "limestone" |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Geology comments: more restricted platformal facies |
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: | 84224 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2008-09-29 03:07:10 | Last modified: | 2008-09-29 06:07:10 |
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] |