Locality 1, 2 mi. west of Nina Lake along road to The Narrows, Lake Manitoba (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Manitoba, Canada (51.0° N, 98.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.4° S, 36.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Polygnathus varcus conodont zone, Spinatrypa zone Member (Dawson Bay Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal, gray, yellow, argillaceous limestone

• thin bedded yellow to pinkish grey, argillaceous limestone, abundant fossiliferous fragments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. McCammon. 1960. Fauna of the Manitoba Group in Manitoba. Province of Manitoba Department of Mines and Natural Resources 59(6):1-80 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 6718: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 13.03.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Spinatrypa mascula
S. mascula and S. mascula manitobensis n. var.
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
"Productella concentrica" = Chonetipustula concentrica
"Productella concentrica" = Chonetipustula concentrica Hall 1857
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Omphalocirridae
Omphalocirrus ? manitobensis Whiteaves 1890 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon pelops Hall 1862 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Phthonia sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 mussel
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Paracyclas elliptica Hall 1843 clam
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
Cypricardinia sp. Hall 1860 clam
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Proetus manitobensis n. sp. McCammon 1960 trilobite