Black Cape, La Vieille and Gascons Fms., Gaspe Peninsula, Chaleurs Bay, Quebec: Silurian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Heliolitidae
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Heliolites interstinctus
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Young and Noble 1990 | |||||||||
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Heliolites laxus
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Young and Noble 1990 | |||||||||
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Heliolites distinctus
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Young and Noble 1990 | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Stelliporellidae
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Stelliporella cf. liljevalli
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Young and Noble 1990 | |||||||||
| originally entered as "Stelliporella cf. liljevalli" | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Proporidae
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Propora tabulata
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Plasmoporidae
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Plasmopora logani
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 48.8° North, 64.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.6° South, 32.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Silurian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Silurian 1-2 |
| Key time interval: | Silurian |
| Age range of interval: | 443.80000 - 419.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: La Vieille and Gascons Fms., unspecified as to what was collected from where. |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: Gascons Fm.: "Offshore shelf or slope; transported carbonate bank material. Slightly calcareous siltstones, rarer pebble to cobble conglomerates and breccias." No entry in paleoenv. field because of indet. formation. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:corals only | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 915 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
| Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-03-18 15:45:40 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32. | G. A. Young and J. P. A. Noble. 1990. Silurian Proporidae and Plasmoporidae (Anthozoa, Tabulata) from the Chaleurs Bay region, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 64(2):184-199 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 36 | G. A. Young and J. P. A. Noble. 1990. Silurian Heliolitidae (Anthozoa, Tabulata) from the Chaleurs Bay region, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 64(1):44-60 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy] |