Where: Quebec, Canada (49.8° N, 64.5° W: paleocoordinates 21.8° S, 37.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Belonechitina gamachiana other zone, Fraise Member (Ellis Bay Formation), Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)
• Collection A431 of Dewing 1999. Same collection names are used by Jin 1989, Jin and Zhan 2008, and Li and Copper 2006. Was Grindstone Member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, bioturbated, coarse-grained, sandy, calcareous lime mudstone
•Copper & Jin 2017: "Thinly bedded, dark gray shale, with nests of Hindella prinstana, Plaesiomys, and Eospirigerina in tidal flat outcrops."
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collected by P. Copper
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: K. Dewing. 1999. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian strophomenid brachiopods of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. In A. D. McCracken (ed.), Palaeontographica Canadiana 17:1-143 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 158579: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 21.07.2014, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Eospirigerina sp.1 Schuchert and Cooper 1930 | |
Onniella tricapitata2 Jin and Zhan 2008 | |
Plaesiomys sp.1 Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Hindella prinstana1 Billings 1862 | |
Strophomenata | |
Aphanomena planoconvexa Dewing 1999 |