Also known as Anticosti Island, The Jumpers, Upper Jupiter Formation

Where: Québec, Canada (49.4° N, 63.6° W: paleocoordinates 22.5° S, 34.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Upper Jupiter Formation. (Pavillon is the uppermost Jupiter member.)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: argillaceous lime mudstone and calcareous shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Brachiopods, trilobites, corals, bryozoans, ostradoces and conoconts included in collection.

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 24435: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 07.08.2002

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