A0950. Tête-Wickenden road, 2.8km N of Tete Jupiter road junction (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as A0740a, A0835, A0951, A0956

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.2° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 35.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Goeland Member (Jupiter Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• Upper part of member.

•Collection A709 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 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. "In the type section, at the east end of the island, the Goéland Member consists of 55 m of recessive weathering, calcareous mudstones and lesser interbedded micritic limestone, and bioclastic grainstone."

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 163575: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Spiroraphe cryptata2
Spiroraphe cryptata2 Billings 1866 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus palaformis
Pentamerus palaformis Jin and Copper 2000
 Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae
Microcardinalia (Dauphinella) melissa
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Clorinda tumidula
Clorinda tumidula Billings 1866
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Levenea rica1
Levenea rica1 Li and Copper 2006
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina hybrida1
Dalejina hybrida1 Sowerby 1839
 Orthida - Draboviidae
? Pionodema hypermeca1
? Pionodema hypermeca1 Li and Copper 2006
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Joviatrypa brabyla1
Joviatrypa brabyla1 Copper 1995
Jupiterella eumorpha
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Jupiterella eumorpha1
Jupiterella eumorpha1 Li and Copper 2006
1Li and Allen 2008; 2Wagner 2023