Anticosti Island Atrypoid Brachiopods, Middle & Upper Jupiter Formation (Silurian to of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.5° S, 33.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Jupiter Formation (Anticosti Group), Alexandrian to Alexandrian (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• Middle & Upper Jupiter Formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale and limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• Alternating shales & limestones.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Brachiopods and atrypoid brachiopids 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 24596: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 11.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
Eocoelia sp.
Eocoelia sp. Nikiforova 1961
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygatrypa mica
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa spp., Atrypa orbicularis
Atrypa spp. Dalman 1828
 Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae
Stricklandia sp.
Stricklandia sp. Billings 1859
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Clorinda sp.
Clorinda sp. Barrande 1879
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus sp.
Pentamerus sp. Sowerby 1813
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Arachnophyllidae
Chonophyllum sp.
Chonophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral