A51 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.3° W: paleocoordinates 22.4° S, 33.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cybele Member (Jupiter Formation), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• Collection A51 of Dewing 1999. Same collection names are used by Jin 1989, Jin and Zhan 2008, and Li and Copper 2006.

•The collection is noted by Dewing to be from the Cybele or Ferrum mbrs. We marked here the lowest Mbr. because we do not know which one the fossils came from.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, bioturbated, hardground, calcareous lime mudstone

• Member description taken from 2007 Long. Tempestite frequency curves: a key to Late Ordovician and Early Silurian subsidence, sea-level change, and orbital forcing in the Anticosti foreland basin, Quebec, Canada. Can. J. Earth Sci. Vol. 44, 413-431. "The 32 to 34 m thick Cybèle Member is characterized by thin- to medium-bedded, predominantly barren micrites with minor thin calcarenites. Bioturbation and hardground surfaces are common. Laminated calcareous mudstones may be present locally but are poorly exposed."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by P. Copper

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: K. Dewing. 1999. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian strophomenid brachiopods of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. In A. D. McCracken (ed.), Palaeontographica Canadiana 17:1-143 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 158722: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 22.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Coolinia pecten Linnaeus 1758