C-83007 Joe Pool Creek (Silurian of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (57.8° N, 125.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 69.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Road River Group, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• upper Road River Group, 136-141 m above the base of the siltstone unit, latest Llandovery or Wenlock

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, J. L. Nelson, and B. S. Norford. 1998. Silurian hexactinellid sponges from northern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 72(2):202-220 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120526: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Protomonaxonida - Leptomitidae
Wareiella typicala Rigby and Harris 1979 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Hexatractiella nevadensis Rigby and Stuart 1988 glass sponge
Hexatractiella pseudonevadensis n. sp. Rigby et al. 1998 glass sponge
Gabelia ? pedunculus Rigby and Murphy 1983 glass sponge
Diagoniella sp. Rauff 1894 glass sponge
Protospongia conica Rigby and Harris 1979 glass sponge