1 km southwest of Wekwemikong, Bed 9 (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.8° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 52.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Kagawong Member (Georgian Bay Formation), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• Kagawong is now a submember of the "Upper Member."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• brown limestone, biomicrite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Copper and D. J. Grawbarger. 1978. Paleoecological succession leading to a late Ordovician biostrome on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 15:1987-2005 [W. Kiessling/B. Bookhagen/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22957: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Britta Bookhagen on 04.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta ponderosa Billings 1865 clam
Anthozoa
 Sarcinulida -
Columnopora sp. Nicholson 1874 tabulate coral