West of Flin Flon Highway (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Southern Manitoba, Stonewall Formation, West of Flin Flon Highway

Where: Manitoba, Canada (50.1° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.5° S, 57.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stonewall Formation, Gamachian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray dolomite

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• Yellowish or yellowish-gray dolomite.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. W. Stearn. 1956. Stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Interlake Group and Stonewall Formation of Southern Manitoba. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 281:1-162 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26362: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 14.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail