A1241b Firetower No. 5 road, Anticosti Island (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 35.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• in encrinites

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 113154: 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 Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon lenticulare Petryk 1967 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Ecclimadictyon microvesiculosum Riabinin 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Petridiostroma parsimplex Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge