Virgiana community, Dyer Bay Fm. (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: Dyer Bay Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• "Llandoverian (Late A & B)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray dolomite

• "thin bedded, grey brown mottled dolomite. low energy- subtidal, cratonic"

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 538: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 12.01.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Copper, 1978"
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Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
ostracodes
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Stegerhynchus sp.
Stegerhynchus sp. Foerste 1909
 Pentamerida - Virgianidae
Virgiana sp.
Virgiana sp. Twenhofel 1914
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Paleofavosites sp.
Paleofavosites sp. Twenhofel 1914 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp.
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral