Honora Bay, Manitoulin Isl., Ontario (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1421

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.8° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 20.4° S, 50.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Manitoulin Dolomite Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• middle Rhuddanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, dolomitic reef rocks

• Clustered bryozoan reef knolls

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. J. Cuffey and P. Copper. 1989. Honora Bay bryozoan bioherms, Lower Silurian, Manitoulin Island, Ontario. In H. H. J. Geldsetzer, N. P. James, and G. E. Tebbutt (eds.), Reefs, Canada and adjacent areas. Canadian Soc. Petrol. Geologists, Memoir 13:290-292 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45292: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.10.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
? Orbignyella sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1904