A0097 Becscie Bay, Anticosti Island (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.7° N, 64.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 36.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chabot Member (Becscie Formation), Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. Nestor, P. Copper, and C. Stock. 2010. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian stromatoporoid sponges from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: Crossing the O/S mass extinction boundary 1-163 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113165: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.07.2011, edited by Pete Wagner and Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon boreale Riabinin 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Ecclimadictyon macrotuberculatum Riabinin 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Brachyprion sp.2 Shaler 1865
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida -
Zygospiraella sp.2 Nikiforova 1961
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Mendacella sp.2 Cooper 1930
 Pentamerida - Virgianidae
Virgiana barrandei1 Billings 1857