Where: Québec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.6° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 35.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: 1 Member (Jupiter Formation), Alexandrian (443.4 - 436.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: burrowed, blue lime mudstone and burrowed, gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Minor corals and trilobites also present.
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 24413: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 07.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Strophomenata | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Pterobranchia | |
Monograptus sedgwickii graptolite | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 |