A0958 Martin Road, 5.8 km east of Chicotte junction (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.2° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.8° S, 33.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ferrum Member (Jupiter Formation), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• Very top of member.

•Collection A254 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, hardground, calcareous lime mudstone and lithified, calcareous grainstone

• 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. "Along the south coast the Ferrum Member is at least 32 m thick. It is characterized by marked lithologic variability with thin-bedded micrite with calcareous mudstone partings, thin calcarenites, hardgrounds, and intraformational conglomerates."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by P. Copper; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. Jin and P. Copper. 2000. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian pentamerid brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 18:1-140 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163586: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Clorinda tumidula
Clorinda tumidula Billings 1866
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus oblongus
Pentamerus oblongus de Sowerby 1839
 Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae
Ehlersella davidsonii, Microcardinalia (Chiastodoca) salterii
Ehlersella davidsonii Billings 1868