Eids Fiord, Ellesmere Island, section U-9: Early Emsian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Gerronostroma septentrionalis Prosh and Stearn 1996
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Glyptostromoides simplex
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Nunavut
Coordinates: 77.3° North, 86.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.1° South, 19.6° 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: Early Emsian Conodont zone:  Polygnathus dehiscens
Age range of interval: 407.6 - 398.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Eids
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: upper Eids Formation, lowermost Emsian; PJW: Was entered as Eids Fiord.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified wackestone
Secondary lithology: lithified calcareous siltstone
Lithology description: dark gray, calcareous siltstone and mudstone with interbeds of fossiliferous lime wackestone and isolated bioherms
Environment:perireef or subreef
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:84227
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-09-29 04:17:43 Last modified:2019-12-28 13:14:29
Access level:the public Released:2008-09-29 04:17:43
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]