Desrochers' 477 A, Île de la Fausse Passe, Southeast shore, bioherm (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (50.2° N, 63.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 45.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mingan Formation, Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• biohermal

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. E. Bolton and R. J. Cuffey. 2005. Bryozoa of the Romaine and Mingan Formations (Lower and Middle Ordovician) of the Mingan Islands, Quebec, Canada. In G. Moyano, J. M. Cancino, I. Hugo, P. N. Wyse Jackson (eds.), Bryozoan Studies 2004: Proceedings of the 13th International Bryozoology 25-42 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175234: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 08.12.2015, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bryozoa
  -
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida -
 Cystoporata - Constellariidae
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Batostoma adhaerens Billings 1859
Anthozoa
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
Eofletcheria sp. Bassler 1950 tabulate coral
 Sarcinulida - Billingsariidae
Billingsaria sp. Okulitch 1936 tabulate coral
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878