A593a Ruisseau aux Algues, Anticosti Island (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1411

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.3° N, 61.8° W: paleocoordinates 22.7° S, 36.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Laframboise Member (Ellis Bay Formation), Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 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 113314: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Ecclimadictyon anticostiense Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Labyrinthodictyon angulosum n. gen. n. sp. Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge