Also known as Reef 2253
Where: Ontario, Canada (52.9° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 14.8° S, 45.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Attawapiskat Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• near the base of the formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: J. Jin, W. G. E. Caldwell, and B. S. Norford. 1993. Early Silurian brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. Bulletin Geological Survey of Canada 457:1-221 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77262: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
? Stenopareia julli trilobite | |
Meroperix aquilonaris, ? Goldillaenus sp., "Ekwanoscutellum ekwanensis" = Ekwanoscutellum ekwanaspis
Meroperix aquilonaris trilobite
? Goldillaenus sp. Schindewolf 1924 trilobite
"Ekwanoscutellum ekwanensis" = Ekwanoscutellum ekwanaspis Whiteaves 1906 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) hudsonensis Jin et al. 1993 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Merista rhombiformis n. sp.
Merista rhombiformis n. sp. Jin et al. 1993 | |
Whitfieldella sulcatina Jin et al. 1993
Meristina obtusa Dalman 1828 | |
Pentameroides septentrionalis Whiteaves 1904 | |
Clorinda rotunda Lindström 1861 |