SE EPB SRF PW Arg (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Manitoba, Canada (52.6° N, 105.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.7° S, 38.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: upper subterminus conodont zone, Point Wilkins Member (Souris River Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Argillaceous Beds

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• argillaceous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Day, T. Uyeno, W. Norris, B. J. Witzke, and B. J. Bunker. 1996. Middle-Upper Devonian relative sea-level histories of central and western North America interior basins. Geological Society of America Special Paper 306:259-275 [A. Miller/J. Zambito/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94133: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 09.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Mytilarca chemungensis Conrad 1842 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
"Independatrypa cf. independensis" = Desquamatia (Independatrypa)
"Independatrypa cf. independensis" = Desquamatia (Independatrypa)