Zygospiraella community, Manitoulin 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: Manitoulin Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)
• "Lower Llandoverian (A + B)"
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; dolomite
• "thin med-bedded dolomite (w/ irreg. bedded dolo in bioherms). quiet protected lagoonal inter-reef habitat. BA2? Cratonic"
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 508: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 07.01.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "Copper, 1978. Paleoenvironments and paleocommunities in the Ord-Sil sequence of Manitoulin Island. Mich. Basin. Geol. Soc. Spec. Paper 3:47-61"
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| Anthozoa | |
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Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
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Paleofavosites sp. Twenhofel 1914 tabulate coral | |
| Crinoidea | |
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Brockocystis sp. Foerste 1914 | |
| Strophomenata | |
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Fardenia sp. Lamont 1935 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Mendacella sp. Cooper 1930 | |
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Platystrophia sp. King 1850 | |
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