Kwataboahegan Formation

{{Short description|Geologic formation in Ontario}}

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| type = Formation

| age = Devonian

| period = Devonian

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| namedfor = Kwataboahegan River

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| region = Moose River Basin Hudson Bay Basin

| country = {{CAN}}

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| underlies = Moose River Formation

| overlies = Stooping River Formation

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The Kwataboahegan Formation is a geologic formation in the Moose River and Hudson Bay basins in northern Ontario, containing fossils from the Lower to Middle Devonian period.{{cite web|title= Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database|author= ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database))|url= https://www.fossilworks.org|access-date= 17 December 2021|df= dmy-all}} 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.{{Cite journal|last=Braun|first=M.|last2=Armstrong|first2=D.K.|last3=Chow|first3=N.|last4=Gouwy|first4=S.A.|date=2016|title=Preliminary Lithostratigraphy, Chemostratigraphy and Lithofacies Analysis of the Devonian Succession, Moose River Basin, Northern Ontario|journal=Ontario Geological Survey Summary of Field Work|pages=13}}