Anticosti Island, Camp Becs-Scie area, Becscie Fm, sample A002 (Silurian to of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.7° N, 64.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 36.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Becscie Formation, Rhuddanian to Rhuddanian (443.4 - 438.5 Ma)

• lower half of the Llandovery (Lower Silurian) succession of Rhuddanian-

•early Aeronian age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; mudstone

• The Becscie Formation is approximately 130 m thick; initial Llandovery deepening (flooding) phase with rhythmic,even, thin-bedded wackestone and characterized by increased lenticular intrarudston
• muddy, carbonate to argillaceous ramp

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: S. Zhang and C. R. Barnes. 2002. A New Llandovery (Early Silurian) Conodont Biozonation and Conodonts from the Becscie,Merrimack, and Gun River Formations, Anticosti Island, Québec. Memoir (The Paleontological Society) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142557: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina strena, Ozarkodina hassi
Ozarkodina hassi Pollock et al. 1970 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
Pseudooneotodus beckmanni
Pseudooneotodus beckmanni Bischoff and Sannemann 1958 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus unicostatus
Panderodus unicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
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Rexroadus kentuckyensis
Rexroadus kentuckyensis Branson and Branson 1947 conodont
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Walliserodus curvatus
Walliserodus curvatus Branson and Branson 1947 conodont