Favositid community, Fossil Hill Fm., Manitoulin Island (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.8° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 20.6° S, 48.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Cycle II, III zone, Fossil Hill Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• "Llandoverian (~C 2-3)"

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray dolomite

• "thin to med bedded gray dolomite. shallow, unrestricted and mod-strong currents"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Copper and D. J. Grawbarger. 1978. Paleoecological succession leading to a late Ordovician biostrome on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 15:1987-2005 [W. Kiessling/B. Bookhagen/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 513: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 07.01.1999

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Taxonomic list

• "Copper, 1978"
unclassified
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Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Syringostromatidae
Syringostroma sp. Nicholson 1865 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Ketophyllidae
Heterolasma sp. Ehlers 1919 horn coral
 Stauriida - Arachnophyllidae
Arachnophyllum sp. Dana 1846 horn coral
 Stauriida - Entelophyllidae
Petrozium sp. Smith 1930 horn coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Dinophyllum sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral
 Stauriida - Ptychophyllidae
Ptychophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Holmophyllidae
Cystiphorolites sp. Miller 1889 horn coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
? Propora sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 tabulate coral
originally entered as "? Propora sp."
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
originally entered as "Foavosites sp."
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites sp. Eichwald 1829 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral