A0195. Ananga Creek to Gull cliffs coastal section (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.2° N, 61.7° W: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 34.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Goeland Member (Jupiter Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• Collection A195 of Dewing 1999. Same collection names are used by Jin 1989, Jin and Zhan 2008, and Li and Copper 2006.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, 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. "In the type section, at the east end of the island, the Goéland Member consists of 55 m of recessive weathering, calcareous mudstones and lesser interbedded micritic limestone, and bioclastic grainstone."

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 158598: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 21.07.2014, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Coolinia pecten
Coolinia pecten Linnaeus 1758
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) sp., Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) philomena, Brachyprion (Brachyprion) sp., "Brachyprion (Brachyprion) leda" = Brachyprion leda
"Brachyprion (Brachyprion) leda" = Brachyprion leda Billings 1860
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp.
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina hybrida2
Dalejina hybrida2 Sowerby 1839
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Acleistoceratidae
Amphicyrtoceras sp.1
Amphicyrtoceras sp.1 Foerste 1924
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
Dawsonoceras hyatti1
Dawsonoceras hyatti1 Foerste 1928
1Holland and Copper 2008; 2Li and Copper 2006