Back-reef facies, Leduc 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: Leduc Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• "U. Dev; Woodbend Grp."
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; peloidal, green grainstone and shale
• "carbonate, pelletal calcarenite, micrite, some thin green calcareous shale. shallow, slightly restricted back-reef lagoon. stable cratonic shelf. BA2"
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 629: 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"
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| Foraminifera | |
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
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| Crinoidea | |
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| Gastropoda | |
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? Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail gastropods (>1 species, >= 2 genera) - originally entered as "? Archaeogastropoda indet."
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| Bivalvia | |
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Megalodon sp. Sowerby 1827 clam | |
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Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
| Brachiopoda | |
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| Deuteropoda | |
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| Anthozoa | |
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Metriophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral | |
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Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral | |
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Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
| Stromatoporoidea | |
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Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge | |
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Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge | |