Becs-Scie Lodge (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Anticosti Island, Becs-Scie Lodge, Becscie Formation Member 2

Where: Québec, Canada (47.3° N, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 41.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fox Point Member (Becscie Formation), Alexandrian (443.4 - 436.0 Ma)

• PJW: Given as Member 2, which is now Fox Point.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; burrowed, gray lime mudstone

• "[T]hin- to medium-bedded limestone with four main repetitive lithologies: a) medium-bedded skeletal packstone, b) rubbly, thin-bedded, grey-brown, mottled lime mudstone, weathering white-grey, closely associated with lithology (a), c) coral-stromatoporid biostromal-like beds up to 30 cm thick with individual colonies up to 10 cm in diameter, and d), thin-bedded, grey, laminated lime mudstone to pelletoidal packstone, locally burrowed, that are laterally equivalent to, and commonly directly avove and below the biostromal beds of lithology (c); ball-and-pillow slump structures are locally developed."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collection includes undescribed brachiopod, coral, and crinoid debris.

Primary reference: C. R. Barnes, A. A. Petryk, and T. E. Bolton. 1981. Anticosti Island, Québec. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 1:1-24 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24400: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 06.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Cyclorinites gregarius
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
"Palaeofavosites sp." = Paleofavosites
"Palaeofavosites sp." = Paleofavosites Twenhofel 1914 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
Propora sp.
Propora sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora sp.
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida -
Zygospiraella planoconvexa
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Phaenopora superba