C651 Jupiter River (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.3° W: paleocoordinates 22.4° S, 33.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ferrum Member (Jupiter Formation), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• Collection C651 of Dewing 1999. Same collection names are used by Jin 1989, Jin and Zhan 2008, and Li and Copper 2006.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, hardground, calcareous lime mudstone and lithified, calcareous grainstone

• 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. "Along the south coast the Ferrum Member is at least 32 m thick. It is characterized by marked lithologic variability with thin-bedded micrite with calcareous mudstone partings, thin calcarenites, hardgrounds, and intraformational conglomerates."

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 158765: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 22.07.2014, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Clorinda tumidula
Clorinda tumidula Billings 1866
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus oblongus
Pentamerus oblongus de Sowerby 1839
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) sp., "Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) philomela" = Strophomena philomela
"Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia) philomela" = Strophomena philomela Billings 1860