Pentameroides community, Fossil Hill Fm., Manitoulin Island (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.8° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 20.6° S, 48.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Cycle IV zone, upper Member (Fossil Hill Formation), Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• "Llandovery (upper), ~C4"

Environment/lithology: marine; gray dolomite

• "thin and med-bedded grey dolomite. quiter and/or deeper water than favositid community. cratonic (BA3)"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1978. Paleoenvironments and paleocommunities in the Ordovician-Silurian sequence of Manitoulin Island. Michigan Basin Geological Society Special Paper 3:47-61 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 455: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 10.12.1998

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Taxonomic list

• "Cooper, 1978"
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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Asthenophyllum sp.
Asthenophyllum sp. Grubbs 1939 horn coral
originally entered as "Athenophyllum sp."
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphyllum sp.
Cystiphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1839 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Araeopoma sp., Goniophyllum sp.
Araeopoma sp. Lindström 1883 horn coral
Goniophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet.
Tabulata indet. tabulate coral
tabulate corals
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet.
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
stromatoporoids
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer sp.
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Gotatrypa sp.
 Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae
Plicostricklandia sp.
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentameroides sp.
Pentameroides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931