GSC loc. 25304. 20SA. Both banks of South Knife River (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as 21SA

Where: Manitoba, Canada (55.9° N, 92.2° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° S, 51.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus ordovicicus conodont zone, 1 Member (Caution Creek Formation), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomitic, gray mudstone and shelly/skeletal packstone

• "Light grey, thin bedded limestones"

•The formation is composed predominantly of light 12 grey, slightly dolomitic, micritic mudstones with interbeds of bioclastic packstone. Members 1 and 3 can be discriminated from Member 2 by their irregular bedding and rubbly- or nodular-weathering appearance. Member 1 is much more fossiliferous than the other two.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: J. Jin, W. G. E. Caldwell, and B. S. Norford. 1997. Late Ordovician brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Manitoba and Ontario. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada 513:1-115 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192101: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.03.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Megamyonia nitens Billings 1860
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena vetusta, "Strophomena fluctuosa" = Nasutimena fluctuosa
"Strophomena fluctuosa" = Nasutimena fluctuosa Billings 1860
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira resupinata Wang 1949
Zygospira resupinata multicostata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Hiscobeccus capax Conrad 1842
Hiscobeccus gigas Wang 1949
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae