Locality 2, 1.6 miles up from mouth of Red Deer River, on north bank. (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as With brine spring just behind and Hwy. 10 running behind the brine spring

Where: Manitoba, Canada (52.9° N, 101.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.0° S, 36.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Polygnathus varcus conodont zone, Schizophoria iowensis Member (Dawson Bay Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, yellow, argillaceous limestone

• limestone, argillaceous, dense, yellowish-grey, thin bedded

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. McCammon. 1960. Fauna of the Manitoba Group in Manitoba. Province of Manitoba Department of Mines and Natural Resources 59(6):1-80 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 6719: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 13.03.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Idiostromatidae
Idiostroma sp. Winchell 1867 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Plexituba contexta tabulate coral
Aulocystis flabellata tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora conferta tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites hadrus n. sp. tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora dumosa tabulate coral
T. dumosa tabulata n. var.
Thamnopora cervicornis tabulate coral
Thamnopora polyforata tabulate coral
"Trachypora sp." = Thamnoptychia Hall 1876 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
 Stauriida - Metriophyllidae
Buschophyllum minutum n. sp. horn coral
 Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
Amplexiphyllum salinensis n. sp. horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Ceratophyllum ? sp. Gürich 1896 horn coral
 Stauriida - Bethanyphyllidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Proetus manitobensis n. sp. McCammon 1960 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
"Schizophoria iowensis" = Schizophoria (Schizophoria) iowensis
"Schizophoria iowensis" = Schizophoria (Schizophoria) iowensis Hall 1858
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Spinatrypa mascula
S. mascula and S. mascula manitobensis n. var.
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana cf. rostellata Conrad 1841 pointed nut clam
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
"Loxonema altivolvis" = Bensbergia altivolvis
"Loxonema altivolvis" = Bensbergia altivolvis Whiteaves 1892 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Buechelia tyrrelli Whiteaves 1892 snail