Unit Name: Caution Creek Formation
Unit Type: Lithostratigraphic
Rank: Formation
Status: Formal
Usage: Currently in use
Age Interval: Maysvillian - Richmondian (453 - 445.6 ma)
Age Justification: Biostratigraphy; the parent Churchill River Group is considered Maysvillian to Richmondian (Thurston, 1992, p.937).
Province/Territory: Manitoba; Nunavut

Originator: Nelson, 1963.

Type Locality:
The type section of the Caution Creek Formation is on Caution Creek, a small tributary of the Churchill River in Manitoba (Nelson, 1963).

Lithology:
Fossileferous dolomitic limestone (Nelson, 1963).

Fossils:
Corals, brachiopods, gastropods and cephalopods (Nelson, 1963).

Relationship:
Belongs to the Churchill River Group (Nelson, 1963).

References:
Nelson, S.J., 1963. Ordovician paleontology of northern Hudson Bay Lowland; Geological Society of America, Memoir 90, 152 p.
Thurston, P.C., Williams, H.R., Sutcliffe, R.H. and Stott, G.M. 1992. Geology of Ontario; Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, Ontario Geological Survey Special Volume 4, 1525 p.

Source: GSC file of geological names; T.E. Bolton and J. Dougherty (compiler)
Contributor: P.H. Davenport
Entry Reviewed: No
Name Set: Lithostratigraphic Lexicon
LastChange: 15 Sep 2009