A0354. Northwest end of Baie aux Goelands (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as A0223

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.2° N, 61.7° W: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 34.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Macgilvray Member (Gun River Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• Collection A354 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, calcareous grainstone and lithified, massive, bioturbated, nodular, 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 Macgilvray member is characterized by massive, nodular to subnodular micrites, planar and wavy laminated micrites, calcarenites, abundant intraformational conglomerates, and minor calcareous mudstones. The member is from 23 to 24 m thick in the composite section measured along the northeast coast and is only slightly thicker along the south-east coast. In the northeast coastal sections, there is a progressive increase in the abundance of bioturbation in the micrites and in the abundance of intraformational conglomerates upsection. Mudstones form 9% to 10% of the succession near the base of the member, decreasing to about 5% higher in the section. Thin sets of planar to wavy laminated micrite are replaced upsection by more massive, nodular to subnodular varieties (BI = 1–3). In places, the micrite beds form parts of shallow channels, up to 30 cm deep and 8 m wide (Fig. 4C). The tops and bases of some micrite and hummocky cross-stratified calcarenite units show marked evidence of erosional sculpturing by both storm currents (in the form of gutters) and biological activity (Figs. 3A, 4B, 5A–5D)."

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 158783: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 22.07.2014, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus palaformis Jin and Copper 2000
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Coolinia pecten Linnaeus 1758