A0194 Baie aux Goelands (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.2° N, 61.7° W: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 34.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Goeland Member (Jupiter Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• Lower part of member.

•Collection A194 of Dewing 1999. Same collection names are used by Jin 1989, Jin and Zhan 2008, and Li and Copper 2006.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, calcareous lime mudstone

• Member description taken from 2007 Long. Tempestite frequency curves: a key to Late Ordovician and Early Silurian subsidence, sea-level change, and orbital forcing in the Anticosti foreland basin, Quebec, Canada. Can. J. Earth Sci. Vol. 44, 413-431. "In the type section, at the east end of the island, the Goéland Member consists of 55 m of recessive weathering, calcareous mudstones and lesser interbedded micritic limestone, and bioclastic grainstone."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by P. Copper

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: K. Dewing. 1999. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian strophomenid brachiopods of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. In A. D. McCracken (ed.), Palaeontographica Canadiana 17:1-143 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 158597: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 21.07.2014, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Coolinia pecten
Coolinia pecten Linnaeus 1758
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus palaformis2
Pentamerus palaformis2 Jin and Copper 2000
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Stegerhynchus peneborealis1
1Jin 1989; 2Jin and Copper 2000