Stony Mountain Formation, Gunn Member, Stony Mountain, Manitoba corals (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Manitoba, Canada (50.1° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° S, 57.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gunn Member (Stony Mountain Formation), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. J. Elias and D. Lee. 1993. Microborings and growth in Late Ordovician halysitids and other corals. Journal of Paleontology 67(6):922-934 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28023: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 20.01.2003, edited by Steven Holland

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Taxonomic list

• From Elias (1982) and Risk et al (1987)
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Sceptropora florida Kiepura 1962
Sceptropora facula Ulrich 1888
Arthrotrypa ovata Lobdell 1992
Nematoporella ulrichi Lobdell 1992
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Bighornia patella Wilson 1926 horn coral
Salvadorea selecta horn coral
Deiracorallium angulatum Billings 1862 horn coral
subsp. gunni