A239. Ruisseau de la Chute (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.3° N, 62.2° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 34.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sandtop Member (Gun River Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• This could be upper Innommee Mbr, but more likely is softer lower Sandtop Mbr

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, green limestone and lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, green shale

• soft weather grn-grey irreg micrites and shales, w. smooth athyrids

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by P. Copper

Collection methods: bulk,

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 233159: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.01.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Narthecoceratidae
Conodonta
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
"Panderodus recurvatus" = Panderodus panderi Stauffer 1940 conodont
Panderodus unicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Walliserodus curvatus Branson and Branson 1947 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
Oulodus panuarensis Bischoff 1986 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Distomodontidae
Distomodus staurognathoides Walliser 1964 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Strachanognathidae
Decoriconus fragilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina pirata Uyeno and Barnes 1983 conodont