Where: Quebec, Canada (49.1° N, 61.7° W: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 34.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Richardson Member (Jupiter Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)
• Collection A323 of Dewing 1999. Same collection names are used by Jin 1989, Jin and Zhan 2008, and Li and Copper 2006.
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•The collection is noted by Dewing to be from the Richardson to Cybele 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, argillaceous limestone and lithified, calcareous lime mudstone
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 158768: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 22.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Brachyprion (Brachyprion) leda" = Brachyprion leda, Brachyprion (Brachyprion) sp., Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) sp., Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) philomena
"Brachyprion (Brachyprion) leda" = Brachyprion leda Billings 1860
Brachyprion (Brachyprion) sp. Shaler 1865
Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) sp. Cocks 1967
Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) philomena Billings 1860 | |
Coolinia pecten Linnaeus 1758 |