Southern Manitoba, Atikameg Dolomite, Head of Grand Rapids, South Shore: Telychian - Wenlock, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Homeospira lowi
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Fardenia ellipsoides
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Neozaphrentis sp. Grove 1935
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Asthenophyllum occidentale
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexoides sp. Wang 1947
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Manitoba
Coordinates: 53.2° North, 99.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.0° South, 51.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Silurian
*Period:Early/Lower Silurian *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Clintonian
Key time interval:Telychian - Wenlock
Age range of interval:438.50000 - 427.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Interlake Formation:Atikameg Dolomite
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red,yellow dolomite
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Dolomite, very pale orange to dark yellowish orange, fine grained, massively bedded, porous, weathers to a soft surface, small caves present near the top.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: Biostrom.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:26634
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:S. Holland Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-10-20 07:55:55 Last modified:2003-07-07 09:12:42
Access level:the public Released:2002-10-20 07:55:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7270. C. W. Stearn. 1956. Stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Interlake Group and Stonewall Formation of Southern Manitoba. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 281:1-162 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/P. Wagner]