Ban Khok Phai, Loei area (Devonian of Thailand)

Also known as Reef 2287

Where: Thailand (18.0° N, 101.8° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 122.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• small patch reefs

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. Fontaine. 1990. Some Devonian corals and stromatoporoids from northeast Thailand. Geologisches Jahrbuch B 73:57-79 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82104: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites sp. Eichwald 1829 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Ptenophyllidae indet. Wedekind 1923 horn coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
"Sinospongophyllum sp." = Tabulophyllum
"Sinospongophyllum sp." = Tabulophyllum Fenton and Fenton 1924 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora angusta stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Hermatostroma beuthii stromatoporoid sponge
Hermatostroma cf. pustulosum stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae