Southern Manitoba, East Arm Dolomite, Center Sec. 33 W. Prin. mer., Moose Lake (Silurian to of Canada)

Where: Manitoba, Canada (53.7° N, 101.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 51.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: East Arm Dolomite Formation (Interlake Group), Telychian to Telychian (438.5 - 427.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray dolomite

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• Type section is dolomite, light olive-gray, very fine grained, thick to medium bedded, local concentric bedding caused by sediment-trapping algae, salt crystal moulds.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26678: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 23.10.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
cf. Leperditia phaseola
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Clintonella bailliei
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites cf. labechei
 Favositida - Multisoleniidae
Multisolenia tortuosa
Multisolenia tortuosa Fritz 1937 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Asthenophyllum occidentale, Asthenophyllum inwoodense