A0889 Dauphiné road, 2.6 km south of bridge (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.2° N, 62.4° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 34.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Upper part of member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified limestone and shale

• BA-3, BA-4
• Blocky blue-grey micrites with shales

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. H. Holland and P. Copper. 2008. Ordovician and Silurian nautiloid cephalopods from Anticosti Island: traject across the Ordovician-Silurian (O-S) boundary. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45(9):1015-1038 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159922: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp.1 Dalman 1828
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Triplesia sp.1 Hall 1859
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Joviatrypa brabyla1 Copper 1995
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus palaformis2 Jin and Copper 2000
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Spiroraphe cryptata3 Billings 1866 snail
pers. observation April 2002
 Murchisoniina - Phanerotrematidae
Phanerotrema aff. lindstroemi1 Boucot et al. 1967 snail
Cephalopoda
 Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
"Elrodooceras blakei" = Elrodoceras blakei
"Elrodooceras blakei" = Elrodoceras blakei Foord 1888