A0418-5 Jumpers section, 4.5 km east of Southwest Point Lighthouse (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.4° N, 63.5° W: paleocoordinates 22.5° S, 34.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Top few meters of member.

•Collection A105 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: shallow subtidal; 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. "The 10 to 12 m thick Pavillon Member consists of recessive calcareous mudstone and interbedded micrite, with discontinuous lenses of calcarenite."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by P. Copper

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. Jin and P. Copper. 2000. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian pentamerid brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 18:1-140 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 158794: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 22.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Stegerhynchus vicina Billings 1866
 Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae