PBDB Collection

A0513. Main road, intersect with access creek flowing under culvert 50 m north t (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as A0733 and A0770

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.2° N, 62.2° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 34.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Collection A513 of Dewing 1999. Same collection names are used by Jin 1989, Jin and Zhan 2008, and Li and Copper 2006. Units 7-9

• group of beds-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; reposited in the GSC

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 158604: 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.

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Cephalopoda
Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae	Diestoceras ? carletonense² Diestoceras ? carletonense² Twenhofel 1928 "This extends the range of the species about 400 m stratigraphically higher than previously known, crossing the O–S boundary (but see below under D. macgilvrayoceras)."
Gastropoda
Murchisoniina - Phanerotrematidae	Phanerotrema aff. lindstroemi¹ Phanerotrema aff. lindstroemi¹ Boucot et al. 1967 snail
Rhynchonellata
Atrypida - Atrypidae	Joviatrypa brabyla¹ Joviatrypa brabyla¹ Copper 1995
Pentamerida - Pentameridae	Pentamerus palaformis³ Pentamerus palaformis³ Jin and Copper 2000
Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae	Stricklandia gwelani³ Stricklandia gwelani³ Jin and Copper 2000
Orthida - Dalmanellidae	Levenea rica⁴ Levenea rica⁴ Li and Copper 2006
Strophomenata
Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae	Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) sp., Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) tenera Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) sp. Kozlowski 1929 Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) tenera Shaler 1865
Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae	"Brachyprion (Brachyprion) leda" = Brachyprion leda, Brachyprion (Brachyprion) sp., Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) sp., Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) philomena "Brachyprion (Brachyprion) leda" = Brachyprion leda Billings 1860 Brachyprion (Brachyprion) sp. Shaler 1865 Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) sp. Cocks 1967 Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) philomena Billings 1860
Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae	Leptaena sp. Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae	Coolinia pecten Coolinia pecten Linnaeus 1758

¹Ebbestad and Tapanila 2005; ²Holland and Copper 2008; ³Jin and Copper 2000; ⁴Li and Copper 2006