A1489 Schmitt Creek, Anticosti Island (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.3° N, 62.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 34.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

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 113296: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon lenticulare, Clathrodictyon roseni
Clathrodictyon lenticulare Petryk 1967 stromatoporoid sponge
Clathrodictyon roseni Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Camptodictyon penefastigiatum
Camptodictyon penefastigiatum Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Petridiostroma parsimplex n. sp.
Petridiostroma parsimplex n. sp. Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge