A1242 Jupiter-24, Anticosti Island (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as A1329

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.6° N, 63.4° W: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 36.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Merrimack Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, brown, green limestone and lithified, nodular, green shale

• deeper water (BA-3, BA-4)
• Interbedded brown-green to green nodular shales and micrites

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 113333: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.07.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Desmidodictyon exoticum Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge
Ecclimadictyon nikitini Riabinin 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
Ecclimadictyon aff. sarvense Nestor 1964 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Tabulata -
Heliolitida "button like to flat"2 Frech 1897 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites "lage"2 Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Meristina lara2 Billings 1866
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Mendacella udauberis2 Li and Copper 2006
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
? Cerasina sp.2 Copper 1995
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Fenestrirostra glacialis2 Billings 1862
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
"Camarotoechia fringilla" = Rhynchotrema fringilla2
"Camarotoechia fringilla" = Rhynchotrema fringilla2 Billings 1862
 Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae
Stricklandia sp.1 Billings 1859
Stricklandia sp.2 Billings 1859