Snake Island: Early Givetian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Omphalocirridae
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Brevicoceratidae
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Placodermi - Arthrodira - Dinichthyidae
Dinichthys canadensis Whiteaves 1892
Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Cyathophyllum vermiculare var. precursor
Heteractinida - Octactinellida - Astraeospongiidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Manitoba
Coordinates: 51.6° North, 99.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.6° South, 57.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Middle Devonian
Stage: Givetian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 3
*Period:Late/Upper Devonian
Key time interval: Early Givetian
Age range of interval: 387.95 - 385.9 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Manitoba Limestone
Stratigraphy comments: "M. Dev (basal Givetian)"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples,gray "limestone"
Environment:open shallow subtidal Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Geology comments: "ls, in part ripple marked, bioclastic; grayish brown fissile ls (80') shallow? BA1. cratonic"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"E.M. Kindle, 1914. The Sil and Dev section of western Manitoba. Geol. Surv. Canada, Sum. Rpt. 1912, p.247-261"
Metadata
Database number:624
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski, M. Clapham, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Sommers, M. Clapham, P. Wagner
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-04-06 15:53:27 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-04-06 15:53:27
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
34755. E. Kindle. 1914. The Silurian and Devonian section of western Manitoba. Geological Survey of Canada Summary Report 1912:247-261 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]