A0887 Dauphiné road, 1.0 km S of bridge (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.2° N, 62.4° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 34.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• units 5-6

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, gray, yellow limestone and lithified, gray, yellow shale

• BA-3, BA-4
• Yellow and gray weathering shales & micrites

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. H. Holland and P. Copper. 2008. Ordovician and Silurian nautiloid cephalopods from Anticosti Island: traject across the Ordovician-Silurian (O-S) boundary. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45(9):1015-1038 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172939: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 02.09.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Spiroraphe cryptata Billings 1866 snail
pers. obs. April 2002.
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras virgatum de Sowerby and Murchison 1839