Mullett Creek, Mississauga, patch reefs (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1900

Where: Ontario, Canada (43.6° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 24.2° S, 52.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Streetsville Member (Meaford Formation), Richmondian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• small patch reefs, 1-3 m thick and 1-10 m across

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. R. Kobluk. 1980. Upper Ordovician (Richmondian) cavity-dwelling (coelobiontic) organisms from southern Ontario. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17(12):1616-1627 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80291: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Heterotrypa sp. Nicholson 1879
Stigmatella sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1906
 Life -
Trypanites sp. Mägdefrau 1932