Chaleurs Group, Gaspe Peninsula, La Vieille, 95001W - Patzkowsky (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.2° N, 64.9° W: paleocoordinates 22.8° S, 36.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

• 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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12557: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 19.11.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Anthozoa only.
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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Subalveolites depressus
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
Propora sp.
Propora sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Pseudoplasmoporidae
Pseudoplasmopora follis
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites subtubulatus
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Acanthohalysites encrustans
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora compacta
Syringopora compacta Billings 1858 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Arachnophyllidae
Arachnophyllum mammillare
 Stauriida - Ptychophyllidae
Cyathactis sp.
Cyathactis sp. Soshkina 1955 horn coral