Stromatoporoid Coral Reef, Gaspe Peninsula, Chaleurs Bay, Port Daniel (Silurian to of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1408

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.2° N, 64.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° S, 29.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Colline Daniel Member (West Point Formation), Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)

• Chaleurs Bay Synclinorium

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• Dimensions: 600 m thick; a few km wide, 400 km long

•Tectonic Region: Northern Appalachian mobile belt

•Depositional Setting: siliclastic-dominated shelf

• massive limestone, which represents the reef margin facies

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Not included in Taxonomic List: bryozoans, sponges

Primary reference: P. A. Bourque and G. Amyot. 1989. Stromatoporoid-Coral Reefs of the upper West Point Reef Complex,Late Silurian, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec. In H.H.J. Geldsetzer, N.P. James, G.E. Tebbutt (eds.), Reefs, Canada and Adjacent Area 13:251-257 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75928: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 06.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
 Life -
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
Sphaerocodium
  -
Sphaerocodium sp. Rothpletz 1890
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral