A1306c Dauphiné road cut, 2.5 km S of bridge (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.2° N, 62.4° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 34.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Goéland Member (Jupiter Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• units 5-6

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified shale

• BA-3, BA-4
• shales and thin-bedded micrites, shell beds

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 113151: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Rosenellidae
Forolinia lenticularis n. sp. Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon lenticulare Petryk 1967 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Petridiostroma incrustatum Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge