Southern Manitoba, Fisher Branch Dolomite, South Shore, Moose Lake: Telychian - Wenlock, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Virgianidae
Virgiana decussata (Whiteaves 1891)
Lingulata - Trimerellida - Trimerellidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Manitoba
Coordinates: 53.7° North, 101.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.1° South, 98.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Silurian Epoch: Llandovery - Wenlock
Stage: Telychian 10 m.y. bin: Silurian 1 - Silurian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Silurian *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Clintonian
Key time interval: Telychian - Wenlock
Age range of interval: 438.6 - 426.7 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Interlake Formation:Fisher Branch Dolomite
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow dolomite
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Yellow to grayish-yellow dolomite.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: Environmental call by T. Hanson.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:26425
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:T. Hanson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-10-15 13:29:45 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-10-15 13:29:45
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
7270. C. W. Stearn. 1956. Stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Interlake Group and Stonewall Formation of Southern Manitoba. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 281:1-162 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/P. Wagner]