Late Ordovician and early Silurian stromatoporoid sponges from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada : crossing the O/S mass extinction / by Heldur Nestor, Paul Copper, and Carl Stock.

Author/creator Nestor, H. author.
Other author Copper, Paul, 1940- author.
Other author Stock, Carl W., author.
Other author National Research Council Canada issuing body.
Format Electronic
PublicationOttawa, Ontario : NRC Research Press, 2010.
Description1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (colour).
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Summary During Late Ordovician and Early Silurian time, from 450 to 428 million years ago, stromatoporoid sponges were some of the most common and abundant fossils in shallow water tropical settings of the Anticosti Basin (Gulf of St Lawrence). They formed dense, massive coralline skeletons of calcium carbonate, some up to a meter or more across, especially in reef environments, but also in deeper waters of the Anticosti shelf, down to the margins of the photic zone, where light faded. The Anticosti Basin reveals one of the most fossiliferous carbonate sequences worldwide for rocks of this age, straddling a global mass extinction boundary, and thus revealing not only those taxa that became extinct, but also how the seas were repopulated in an equatorial setting after the mass extinction.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Spec. audience char. Specialized.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 14, 2016).
Issued in other formPrint version : 9780660199306
ISBN9781927346150 (ebook) :

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