Also known as Fagerstrom #6

Where: Ontario, Canada (44.0° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 27.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Formosa Reef Limestone Member (Amherstburg Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• "This outcrop has been designated the type section of the Formosa Reef Limestone and has previously been described and illustrated by Stauffer (1915) under the name "Bruder's lime kiln." The present owner of the property adjacent to the road cut, Wm. E. Merchant...said that...the land had never been owned or leased by anyone named Bruder nor had anyone by that name ever operated a quarry or lime kiln at this locality. [From] Stauffer's photograph...[the writer was able to locate landmarks, thus this is the same spot]...Stumm (1951)...[called the place Marchand Quarry]...the name must have arisen by confusion [with Merchant's name]."

•JA: originally entered as Emsian, but the Formosa Reef Limestone is Eifelian (see Edinger et al. 2002)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, gray reef rocks and lime mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. A. Fagerstrom. 1961. The fauna of the Middle Devonian Formosa Reef Limestone of southwestern Ontario. Journal of Paleontology 35(1):1-48 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3845: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 10.08.1999, edited by Melanie Hopkins and Pete Wagner

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