Where: Quebec, Canada (49.7° N, 63.4° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 35.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-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
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 142687: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Ozarkodina strena conodont
Ozarkodina hassi Pollock et al. 1970 conodont | |
Rexroadus nathani McCracken and Barnes 1981 conodont | |
Panderodus unicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont |