Chaleurs Group, Gaspe Peninsula, La Vieille Fm, 95006 - Patzkowsky (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.1° N, 65.8° W: paleocoordinates 22.8° S, 36.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: La Vieille Formation (Chaleurs Group), Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Limestone unit divided into three informal members, a lower nodular member, a middle algal and biohermal member, and an upper nodular member.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. E. Bolton. 1981. Early Silurian Anthozoa of Chaleurs Group, Port Daniel-Black Cape region, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec. In T. E. Bolton, P. J. Lesperance (eds.), IUGS Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician - Silurian Boundary Working Group, Field Meeting, Anticosti - Gaspe, Quebec, 1981 2:299-314 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 12444: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 14.11.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Anthozoa only.
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Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
? Cystiphyllum sp.
? Cystiphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1839 horn coral
 Favositida - Theciidae
Thecia swinderniana
Thecia swinderniana Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp.
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Acanthohalysites encrustans