Where: Quebec, Canada (49.2° N, 62.4° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 34.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Goéland Member (Jupiter Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified shale
•exposing 1-2m soft weathering clayey shales, micrites, blue-grey with abundant giant Pentamerus, strophs, no atrypids
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: H. Nestor, P. Copper, and C. Stock. 2010. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian stromatoporoid sponges from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: Crossing the O/S mass extinction boundary 1-163 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 113152: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.07.2011, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Pentamerus "giant sp."1 Sowerby 1813 | |
| Gastropoda | |
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| Cephalopoda | |
| Stromatoporoidea | |
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Forolinia lenticularis Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge | |
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Clathrodictyon lenticulare Petryk 1967 stromatoporoid sponge | |