McBeth Point-Cat Head-Lynx Point, Lake Winnipeg: Maysvillian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scyphozoa - Conulariida - Conulariidae
Metaconularia heymanni (Foerste 1920)
Robson and Young 2013
eastern side of McBeth Point
Conularia aff. elegantula
Robson and Young 2013
McBeth Point & west end of cliff just east of the point at Cat Head
Conularia asperata
Whiteaves 1897
    = Conularia porcella n. sp. Robson and Young 2013
Robson and Young 2013
Cat Head, McBeth Point, between McBeth Point and Cat Head, McBeth Point fishing station
Conularia ? splendida Billings 1866
Robson and Young 2013
Cat Head & McBeth Point
Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Hintzespongiidae
Cyathophycus ? reticulatus Walcott 1879
Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Dictyospongiidae
Tiddalickia manitobensis n. sp. Rigby and Leith 1989
Rigby and Leith 1989
Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Hydnodictyidae
Hydnodictya acantha n. gen., n. sp. Rigby 1971
Hexactinellida - Lyssacinosa - Pyruspongiidae
Pyruspongia camella n. sp. Rigby 1971
Pyruspongia ruga n. gen., n. sp. Rigby 1971
Hexactinellida - Lyssacinosa - Brachiospongiidae
Brachiospongia digitata (Owen 1858)
Demospongiae - Anthaspidellidae
? Anthaspidella mammulata Ulrich and Everett 1890
Patellispongia sp. Bassler 1927
Demospongiae - Streptosolenidae
Hudsonospongia irregularis Raymond and Okulitch 1940
Aulocopella winnipegensis Rauff 1895
? Edriospongia basalis Ulrich and Everett 1889
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Sollasellidae
Trichospongiella n. gen. hystrix (Whiteaves 1897)
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Manitoba
Coordinates: 52.1° North, 97.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.6° South, 57.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Maysvillian
Age range of interval:450.40000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Red River Member:Cat Head
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified dolomite
Secondary lithology: lithified chert
Lithology description: cream-coloured finely crystalline dolomite, light grey dense chert
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:120497
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Wagner Enterer:U. Merkel, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-11-14 21:16:46 Last modified:2015-10-24 15:47:56
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-11-14 21:16:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
38615. J. K. Rigby. 1971. Sponges of the Ordovician Cat Head Member, Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 202:35-79 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

38510 J. K. Rigby and E. I. Leith. 1989. Tiddalickia manitobensis, a new dictyosponge, and an unusual specimen of the lithistid sponge, Aulocopella winnipegensis Rauff, from the Ordovician of Manitoba. Journal of Paleontology 63(5):550-553 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
56752 S. P. Robson and G. A. Young. 2013. Late Ordovician conulariids from Manitoba, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 87(5):775-785 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
16444 J. F. Whiteaves. 1897. Systematic list, with references, of the fossils of the Hudson River or Cincinnati formation at Stony Mountain, Manitoba. Palaeozoic Fossils 3(3):129-201 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]