A281 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.4° N, 63.4° W: paleocoordinates 22.6° S, 33.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Collection A281 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. "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: 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 158797: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 22.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Coolinia pecten
Coolinia pecten Linnaeus 1758