AN6 280 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.8° N, 64.4° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 37.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Becscie Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• 280 cm above top of Platform Bed of Ellis Bay Formation

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone

• hard, slabby, evenly bedded, and tan to grey limestones...locally very fossiliferous but other parts appear entirely to lack fossils

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen. 2004. Early Silurian trilobites of Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 22 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184375: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 23.02.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Stenopareia sp.
Stenopareia sp. Holm 1886 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Failleana magnifica n. sp.
Failleana magnifica n. sp. Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Acernaspis sp.
Acernaspis sp. Campbell 1967 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene barnesi
Calymene barnesi Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Proetus lindoei
Proetus lindoei Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite