Chaleurs Group, Gaspe Peninsula, Clemville Fm, 95002 - Patzkowsky (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.2° N, 65.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.8° S, 36.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, green siltstone and lithified sandstone

• Thick-bedded greenish grey muddy siltstones and fine-grained sandstones; minor thin beds of silty calcilutites.

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12446: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 14.11.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Anthozoa only.
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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
? Streptelasma sp.
? Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral
 Heliolitida - Coccoserididae
Acidolites clemvillensis
 Favositida - Favositidae
Paleofavosites spp.
Paleofavosites spp. Twenhofel 1914 tabulate coral