ammonites
Sor Fiord, Ellesmere Island, section K (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 3871

Where: Nunavut, Canada (77.3° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 16.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Fiord Formation, Emsian (409.1 - 391.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• brownish gray to brown nodular limestones and lesser interbedded gray calcareous mudstones and shales, with large stromatoporoid-bearing bioherms

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Prosh and C. W. Stearn. 1996. Stromatoporoids from the Emsian (Lower Devonian) of Arctic Canada. Bulletins of American Paleontology 109(349):1-65 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84088: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.09.2008