Anticosti Island, Jupiter Formation Member 2 Graptolites (Silurian of Canada)

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: 2 Member (Jupiter Formation), Alexandrian (443.4 - 436.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• "[I]nterbedded coarse, highly skeletal (encrinitic) and shaly limestones (packstone and grainstone)." Lithology from C. R. Barnes, A. A. Petryk and T. E. Bolton. 1981. Anticosti Island, Québec. Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 1:1-24. Edited by P.J. Lespérance.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Graptolites only; from Petryk's collections made from 1975-1977 and 1979. Individual collections described in reference.

Primary reference: J. Riva and A. A. Petryk. 1981. Graptolites from the Upper Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Anticosti Island and the position of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary. Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group, Stratigraphy and Paleontology 2:159-164 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24823: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 20.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Normalograptidae
"Climacograptus normalis" = Normalograptus normalis
"Climacograptus normalis" = Normalograptus normalis Lapworth 1877 graptolite