Cooking Lake community, Cooking Lake Fm. (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (53.6° N, 113.5° W: paleocoordinates 12.5° S, 41.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Cooking Lake Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• "U. Dev; Woodbend Grp."

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; carbonate

• "carbonate, variable. carbonate shoal, near effective wave-base; both turbulent and quiet water. stable cratonic shelf, pre-reef. BA3"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. E. Klovan. 1964. Facies analysis of the Redwater Reef Complex, Alberta, Canada. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 12:1-100 [M. Uhen/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 630: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Klovan, 1964; no bryozoans tabulated"
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoids
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Strophodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Strophodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta) Hall 1852
5 species - originally entered as "Stropheodonta sp."
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula sp. Hall 1867
2 species
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Allanaria sp. Crickmay 1953
3 species
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambothyris sp. George 1931
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
4 species
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Gastropoda
 Streptoneura -
? Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail
other gastropods - originally entered as "? Archaeogastropoda indet."
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Philoxene sp." = Straparollus (Philoxene)
"Philoxene sp." = Straparollus (Philoxene) Kayser 1889 snail
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
ostracodes
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
? Dendrostella sp. Glinski 1957 horn coral
originally entered as "? Dendrostella sp."
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Phillipsastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 horn coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Tabulophyllum sp. Fenton and Fenton 1924 horn coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge