Gensel and Andrews locality W (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.8° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° S, 12.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: annulatus-lindlarensis pollen zone, Cap-aux-Os Member (Battery Point Formation), Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• This locality has been dated to the late Emsian using spores, falling within the sextantii Subzone of the annulatus–lindlarenisis Zone of Richardson and McGregor (1986).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified shale

• Cant and Walker (1976) suggested a braided river model of deposition for the Battery Point Formation based on evidence of lateral migration of in-channel bars and reconstructions of paleoflow directions. The Cap-aux-Os Member was interpreted by Lawrence and Rust (1988) as having been deposited by the meander belts of moderate to high sinuosity rivers that flowed across a muddy, vegetated coastal plain next to a marine embayment.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by P. Gensel, W. Gensel

• Repository: Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Miguasha (MHNM), Miguasha, Québec

Primary reference: H. M. Wilson. 2006. Juliformian millipedes from the Lower Devonian of Euramerica: implications for the timing of millipede cladogenesis in the Paleozoic. Journal of Paleontology 80:638-649 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155931: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Chilognatha - Gaspestriidae
Gaspestria genselorum n. gen. n. sp.
Gaspestria genselorum n. gen. n. sp. Wilson 2006 millipede
MHNM 01.120