Ancient Wall Reef Complex, Mt. Haultain, upper Peechee Member (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1354

Where: Alberta, Canada (53.2° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° S, 43.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peechee Member (Southesk Formation), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• marginal facies of the second reef complex, debris beds and some stromatoporoid- coral-Renalcis bioherms and biostromes

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. W. Stearn. 1975. Stromatoporoid assemblages, Ancient Wall Reef Complex (Devonian), Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 12:1631-1667 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83548: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Phillipsastrea sp.
Phillipsastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 horn coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Smithiphyllum whittakeri
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp.
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Taleastroma steleforme n. sp.
Taleastroma steleforme n. sp. Stearn 1975 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Anostylostromatidae
Anostylostroma phricum
Anostylostroma phricum Stearn 1966 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes jonelrayi n. sp.
Stachyodes jonelrayi n. sp. Stearn 1975 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Stictostroma maclareni
Stictostroma maclareni Stearn 1966 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Trupetostroma kakisaense
Trupetostroma kakisaense Stearn 1966 stromatoporoid sponge
Ulvophyceae
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Vermiporella sp.
Vermiporella sp. Stolley 1893
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Litanaia sp.
Litanaia sp. Maslov 1956
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp.
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Sphaerocodium
  -
Sphaerocodium sp.
Sphaerocodium sp. Rothpletz 1890
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878