Where: Quebec, Canada (48.1° N, 66.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 15.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Escuminac Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• Bed 220 (Leduc and Belles-Isles, 1989) occurs 54.3 m above the base of the Escuminac Formation, in the lower part of unit 3 of Hesse and Sawh (1982, 1992), just below the horizons bearing the faunal zone 3 of Russel (1939; cf. Parent and Cloutier, 1996, fig. 1). The diverse microflora of the Escuminac Formation indicates that it belongs to the lower part of the Archaeopterisaccus ovalis–Verrucolites bulliferous miospore Assemblage Zone of early to middle Frasnian age (McGregor, 1996; Cloutier et al., 1996).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Miguasha (MHNM), Miguasha, Québec

Primary reference: H. M. Wilson, E. B. Daeschler, and S. Desbiens. 2005. New flat-backed archipolypodan millipedes from the Upper Devonian of North America. Journal of Paleontology 79:738-744 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155925: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.05.2014

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