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ISBN: 978-1-897095-85-0

ISSN: 0821-7556

Representatives of the rugose coral families Fasciphyllidae and Spongophyllidae are characteristic components of the rugose fauna in the Middle Devonian of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Detailed taxonomic treatment is done on 7 genera and 14 species. Five of the species are new. Significantly the Russian form Loyolophyllum poligonum is recognized in Canada for the first time. Seven of the other species are revised on the basis of the type and new material. In addition, new illustrations of the type material of the type species of Battersbyia and Loyolophyllum are provided.

The geographic setting includes the Lower Mackenzie Valley, Mackenzie Basin, Presqu’ile Barrier and margins, Bekami Basin, Macdonald Platform and margins, Eastern Ospika Embayment and margins, and the Rainbow Sub-basin of Western Canada. The stratigraphic framework for the coral fauna is reviewed and its age constraints are considered in terms of all available conodont data.

Most of the specimens described in this monograph were collected by the author, and support for the collection and preparation of this material was provided by Amoco Canada Petroleum Company Limited (now BP Canada Resources), and later by Anadarko Canada Corporation (now Canadian Natural Resources Limited).

Joint Committee on Paleontological Monographs

Softcover 117 pp., 21 pls. (2018)