The Kwataboahegan Formation is a
geologic formation in the Moose River and Hudson Bay basins in northern
Ontario, containing
fossils
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
from the Lower to Middle
Devonian
The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, whe ...
period. It is characterized by brown bituminous stromatoporoid-coral
floatstone to
bindstone and stromatoporoid-coral-crinoid
wackestone-
packstone-
rudstones, interbedded with light grey, bioclastic wackestone-packstone.
See also
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ontario
This is a list of stratigraphic units in Ontario bearing fossils.
See also
References
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{{Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Canada
Geology of Ontario
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territo ...
References
Devonian Ontario
Devonian southern paleotemperate deposits
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