AK8-01e, Shoreline outcrop on east side of Houston Point, Akimiski Island (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (53.1° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 15.4° S, 43.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pterospathodus amorphognathoides conodont zone, Attawapiskat Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• Uppermost Telychian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified packstone and framestone

• flat−lying shelly wackestone to packstone of inter-reef facies; coral−stromatoporoid biostrome and framestone well developed locally

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC, ROM

• collected area: 4 m²

Primary reference: J. Jin and L. E. Popov. 2008. A new genus of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian pentameride brachiopods and its phylogenetic relationships. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(2):221-236 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164002: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.11.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Protanastrophia repanda
Protanastrophia repanda Jin and Popov 2008
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula akimiskiformis