Where: Manitoba, Canada (58.2° N, 94.1° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 51.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Chasm Creek Formation (Churchill River Group), Late/Upper Ordovician (458.4 - 443.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. J. Elias. 1983. Late Ordovician solitary rugose corals of the Stony Mountain Formation, southern Manitoba, and its equivalents. Journal of Paleontology 57(5):924-956 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28229: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 30.01.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Paliphyllum sp. Soshkina 1955 horn coral | |
Bighornia bottei, Bighornia cf. patella, "Grewingkia haysii" = Zaphrenthis haysii, Salvadorea kingae, Salvadorea sp., Deiracorallium giganteum, Deiracorallium manitobense
Bighornia bottei horn coral
Bighornia cf. patella Wilson 1926 horn coral
"Grewingkia haysii" = Zaphrenthis haysii Meek 1865 horn coral
Salvadorea kingae horn coral
Salvadorea sp. horn coral
Deiracorallium giganteum horn coral | |