The origin, ecology and reef-building contribution of Late Paleozoic Palaeoaplysina in Nunavut, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Main Author: Anderson, Kaylee
• Other Authors: Beauchamp, Benoit
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2012
• Subjects: Geology; Palaeoaplysina; Sverdrup; Nunavut; Arctic; Blind Fiord; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Ellesmere Island; Arctic Archipelago; sverdrup basin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11023/247; https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28263

Palaeoaplysina was a major component of Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian reef build-ups along northwestern Pangea, however the paleoecology and geologic contributions of this macrofossil remain poorly understood. A coarse inner and fine outer cellular skeleton suggests Palaeoaplysina was an ancestr...