Manitowaning bioherms, Manitoulin Island: Rhuddanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Favositidae
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Paleofavosites sp.
Twenhofel 1914
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Favosites sp.
Lamarck 1816
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Halysitidae
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Halysites sp.
von Waldheim 1813
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Syringoporidae
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Syringopora sp.
Goldfuss 1826
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Entelophyllidae
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Entelophyllum sp.
Wedekind 1927
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Evenkiella sp.
Soshkina 1955
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Kyphophyllidae
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Strombodes sp.
Schweigger 1819
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Stauriidae
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Palaeophyllum sp.
Billings 1858
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Stromatoporoidea
- Stromatoporoidea
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Stromatoporoidea indet.
Nicholson and Murie 1878
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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unclassified
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Brachiopoda indet.
Cuvier 1805
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Ontario |
| Coordinates: | 45.7° North, 81.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 20.5° South, 50.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Silurian | Epoch: | Llandovery |
| Stage: | Rhuddanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Silurian 1 |
| Key time interval: | Rhuddanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 443.80000 - 440.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Manitoulin |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | dolomitic lithified wackestone |
| Secondary lithology: | dolomitic lithified lime mudstone |
| Lithology description: 300 coral-stromatoporoid bioherms, majority less than 50 m in diameter and 2-3 m thick, maximum 12 m thick and 200 m wide | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 819 | ||
| Database number: | 79159 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-02-27 00:54:15 | Last modified: | 2008-02-27 02:59:00 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-01-08 10:39:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26568. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 6611 | K. A. Schneider and W. I. Ausich. 2002. Paleoecology of framebuilders in Early Silurian reefs (Brassfield Formation, southwestern Ohio). Palaios 17(3):237-248 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |