A0431. Anse aux Fraises. (Ordovician of Canada)

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

• Member description taken from 2007 Long. Tempestite frequency curves: a key to Late Ordovician and Early Silurian subsidence, sea-level change, and orbital forcing in the Anticosti foreland basin, Quebec, Canada. Can. J. Earth Sci. Vol. 44, 413-431. "The Grindstone Member, at its type section on the north-east coast of Anticosti Island, consists of >14 m of lami-nated to thin-bedded, very fine sandstones (subfeldspathic to feldspathic bioarenites) and minor laminated calcareous mudstones. These mixed siliciclastic–carbonate sandstones appear to be restricted to the east end of the island; within 15 km of the type section they pass into sandy limestones. To the west, at Vauréal Falls, they are dominated by highly bioturbated thin-bedded micrites, interbedded with thin to thick beds of calcarenite of coarse sand to granule grade. At the west end of the island the member consists of 21 m of predominantly laminated to thin-bedded planar to wavy laminate (irregular, subnodular) micrites, with abundant bioturbation. Grainstones are rare and are typically discontinuous lenticular."

•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

• Brachiopods only.
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Eospirigerina sp.1 Schuchert and Cooper 1930
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Onniella tricapitata2 Jin and Zhan 2008
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Plaesiomys sp.1 Hall and Clarke 1892
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella prinstana1 Billings 1862
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae