A1199 main road, Anticosti Island (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1416

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.1° N, 62.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 34.9° 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: 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 113311: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon sinuosum Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Petridiostroma parsimplex Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge