A0972 Laframboise Creek, Anticosti Island (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.8° N, 64.4° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 37.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Spinachitina taugourdeaui other zone, Lousy Cove Member (Ellis Bay Formation), Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; 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 113323: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.07.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Aulaceratidae
Quasiaulacera occidua n. gen. n. sp.
Quasiaulacera occidua n. gen. n. sp. Copper et al. 2013 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Ecclimadictyon anticostiense Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge