Where: Alberta, Canada (58.0° N, 112.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° S, 38.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Waterways Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• "lower upper Dev (above Slave Pt)"
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; argillaceous, calcareous limestone and lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: A. W. Norris and T. T. Uyeno. 1981. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the lowermost Upper Devonian Slave Point Formation on Lake Claire and the Lower Upper Devonian Waterways Formation on Birch River, NW Alberta. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 334:1-53 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3409: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 31.01.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Algae | |
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Crinoidea | |
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Gastropoda | |
? Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail gastropod; small, spirally coiled - originally entered as "? Archaeogastropoda indet."
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Lophophorata | |
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Strophodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
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Rhynchonellata | |
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Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
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Variatrypa clarkei, "Pseudatrypa cf. gigantea" = Pseudoatrypa, "Pseudatrypa sp." = Pseudoatrypa, Desquamatia sp., Spinatrypa sp.
Desquamatia sp. Alekseeva 1960 | |
"Ladogiodes asmenista" = Ladogioides
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Stenolaemata | |
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Polychaeta | |
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800 |