Jupiter River, Anticosti Island (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Anticosti Island, Jupiter River, Becscie Formation Member 2

Where: Québec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.6° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 35.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 42 m of member exposed. PJW: Given as Member 2, which is now Fox Point.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray lime mudstone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• "a) thin- to medium-bedded, grey, laminated, lime mudstone to skeletal wackestone, b) thin-bedded, grey, skeletal wackestone to intrarudstone (intraformational conglomerate) and c) thin-to medium-bedded, grey-brown, Virgiana wackestone to packstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collection includes abundant corals and stromatoporids.

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 24404: 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
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Phaenopora superba
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida -
Zygospiraella planoconvexa
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