Also known as Reef 1485; was Port Colborne Quarry bioherm, Edgecliff Member, Onondaga Formation
Where: Ontario, Canada (42.9° N, 79.3° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° S, 26.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Edgecliff Member (Onondaga Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; shelly/skeletal, gray, calcareous packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite, replaced with silica
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: C. T. Johnston. 1990. Bioherm Development in the Edgecliff Member of the Onondaga Formation, Port Colburne, Ontario. 1-91 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9476: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 15.11.2000, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Gastropoda | |
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Trilobita | |
"Dechenella (Dechenella) delphinula" = Dechenella planimarginata1
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"Phacops cristata" = Viaphacops cristatus2, "Phacops pipa" = Viaphacops pipa2, "Phacops canadensis" = Viaphacops canadensis2
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Anthozoa | |
Cystiphyllum vesiculosum Goldfuss 1826 horn coral | |
"Zaphrentis sp." = Zaphrenthis, Heliophyllum halli
"Zaphrentis sp." = Zaphrenthis Rafinesque and Clifford 1820 horn coral
Heliophyllum halli Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral | |
Blothrophyllum decorticatum horn coral | |
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Favosites emmonsia tabulate coral
Favosites basalticus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Favosites canadensis Billings 1858 tabulate coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge |