Where: Manitoba, Canada (53.2° N, 99.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° S, 50.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cedar Lake Dolomite Formation (Interlake Group), Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)
• Undifferentiated beds.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: dolomite
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 26729: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 25.10.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea | |
Clathrodictyon cf. striatellum stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Paleofavosites transiens Stearn 1956 tabulate coral | |
Asthenophyllum sp. Grubbs 1939 horn coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Plectatrypa sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1930 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Brachyprion acanthopterus" = Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera
"Brachyprion acanthopterus" = Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera Whiteaves 1891 | |
Trilobita | |
Arctinurus sp. Castelnau 1843 trilobite | |
Encrinurus hypoleptrus trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Leperditia caeca ostracod |