Locality 6 (upper), north bank Red Deer River, 100 yards west of Hwy. 10 bridge (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Between The Pas and Mafeking

Where: Manitoba, Canada (53.0° N, 101.0° W: paleocoordinates 20.9° S, 36.4° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Polygnathus varcus conodont zone, Atrypa snakensis Member (Dawson Bay Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, yellow, argillaceous, calcareous limestone and shale

• argillaceous limestone, calcereous shale, yellowish to blue grey

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. McCammon. 1960. Fauna of the Manitoba Group in Manitoba. Province of Manitoba Department of Mines and Natural Resources 59(6):1-80 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 6724: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 13.03.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Ptychospirina sp. Perner 1907 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon pelops Hall 1862 snail
B. pelops var.
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Paracyclas proavia Goldfuss 1834 clam
forms A, B and C
Paracyclas elliptica Hall 1843 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Spinatrypa mascula
S. mascula and S. mascula manitobensis n. var.
Strophomenata
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
"Productella concentrica" = Chonetipustula concentrica
"Productella concentrica" = Chonetipustula concentrica Hall 1857
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Reptariidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Proetus manitobensis n. sp. McCammon 1960 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites hadrus n. sp. tabulate coral