S Manitoba, Cedar Lake Dolomite, Sec. 32, Cedar Lake (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Manitoba, Canada (53.3° N, 100.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° S, 50.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cedar Lake Dolomite Formation (Interlake Group), Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomite

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: C. W. Stearn. 1956. Stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Interlake Group and Stonewall Formation of Southern Manitoba. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 281:1-162 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26738: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 25.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites catenularia Linnaeus 1767 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella cf. crispa Hisinger 1827
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Brachyprion acanthopterus" = Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera
"Brachyprion acanthopterus" = Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera Whiteaves 1891