A660 (Silurian of Canada)

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

• Collection A660 of Dewing 1999. Same collection names are used by Jin 1989, Jin and Zhan 2008, and Li and Copper 2006.

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•The collection is noted by Dewing to be from the Gun River and Jupiter fm. contact. We marked here the lowest Fm. because we do not know which one the fossils came from.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, yellow, 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. "Along the northeast coast of Anticosti Island the Gun River Formation includes 85 to 90 m of grey to pale yellow weathering strata, which have been divided into four informal members (Lachute, Innommée, Sandtop, and Macgilvray) that can be traced with some confidence into the type section on the southwest coast (Long and Copper 1994)."

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 159215: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 29.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) sp., Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) tenera
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
"Brachyprion (Brachyprion) leda" = Brachyprion leda, Brachyprion (Brachyprion) sp.
"Brachyprion (Brachyprion) leda" = Brachyprion leda Billings 1860
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Coolinia pecten
Coolinia pecten Linnaeus 1758