Manitowaning bioherms, Manitoulin Island (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 819

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.7° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 20.5° S, 50.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Manitoulin Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, dolomitic wackestone and lithified, dolomitic lime mudstone

• 300 coral-stromatoporoid bioherms, majority less than 50 m in diameter and 2-3 m thick, maximum 12 m thick and 200 m wide

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. R. Kobluk, D. J. Bottjer, and M. J. Risk. 1977. Disorientation of Paleozoic hemispherical corals and stromatoporoids. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 14:2226-2231 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 79159: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Palaeophyllum sp. Billings 1858 horn coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Strombodes sp. Schweigger 1819 horn coral
 Stauriida - Entelophyllidae
Evenkiella sp. Soshkina 1955 horn coral
Entelophyllum sp. Wedekind 1927 horn coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Paleofavosites sp. Twenhofel 1914 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral