Fort Good Hope, Post-Stringocephalus zone: Early Frasnian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Trupetostroma porosum
Hermatostroma episcopale
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Anostylostromatidae
Anostylostroma vacuolatum n. sp. Galloway 1960
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Northwest Territories
Coordinates: 66.3° North, 128.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.4° South, 36.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Late Devonian
Stage: Frasnian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 4
Key time interval: Early Frasnian
Age range of interval: 382.7 - 379.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ramparts
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Post-Stringocephalus burtini zone, upper formation, Lower 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 3868
Database number:84328
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-10-08 06:07:51 Last modified:2008-10-17 05:37:28
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]