Souris River Fm, Point Wilkins and Sagemace Mbrs, Frasnian section, Manitoba, Ca (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Manitoba, Canada (52.0° N, 100.2° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 36.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Point Wilkins and Sagemace Member (Souris River Formation), Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 382.4 Ma)

• Frasnian portion of Point Wilkins Mbr, plus the Frasnian Sagemace Mbr; Sagemace contains conodonts of Pandorinellina insita age

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous, calcareous limestone and shale

• Argillaceous limestones and calcareous shales for Sagemace, dolomitic limestone for Point Wilkins Mbr.

Primary reference: C. W. Stearn. 1996. Stromatoporoids from the Devonian (Eifelian to Lowest Frasnian) of Manitoba, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 70(2):196-217 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3638: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 05.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

• Stromatoporoid systematics
Conodonta
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Conodonta indet. Pander 1856 conodont
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora cygnea Stearn 1963 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Ferestromatoporidae
Arctostroma contexta stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Syringostromellidae
Salairella bullulosa Stearn 1966 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Clathrocoilona sp. Yavorsky 1931 stromatoporoid sponge
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Clathrocoilona sp. A"
Clathrocoilona cf. obliterata Lecompte 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
"cf. C. obliterata" - originally entered as "Clathrocoilona cf. C. obliterata"
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Trupetostroma papulosum Stearn 1962 stromatoporoid sponge
Hermatostroma cf. haultainense Stearn 1975 stromatoporoid sponge
"cf. H. haultainense" - originally entered as "Hermatostroma cf. H. haultainense"
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
Actinostroma expansum Hall and Whitfield 1873 stromatoporoid sponge