Where: Québec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 35.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Becscie Formation (Anticosti Group), Alexandrian (443.4 - 436.0 Ma)

• Upper Becscie Formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Atrypoid brachiopods only.

Primary reference: P. Copper. 1981. Atrypoid brachiopods and their distribution in the Ordovician-Silurian sequence of Anticosti Island. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group, Stratigraphy and Paleontology 2:137-141 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24587: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 11.08.2002

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