3 miles SW of Little Current, Manitoulin Island, Kagawong Fm. (Ordovician of Canada)
Where: Ontario, Canada (46.0° N, 81.9° W: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 52.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kagawong Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone and lithified lime mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: A. F. Foerste. 1924. Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 138(121):1-99 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 173199: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 12.09.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Rhynchonellata | |
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Rhynchotrema perlamellosum Whitfield 1882 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Rhytimya kagawongensis Foerste 1914 clam | |
"Pterina (Caritodens) demissa" = Pterinea demissa
"Pterina (Caritodens) demissa" = Pterinea demissa Conrad 1842 oyster | |