AN88 (Silurian of Canada)

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

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified shale and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

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 187777: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 11.08.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Kettneraspis sp. Prantl and Pribyl 1949 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Stenopareia grandis Billings 1859 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites jupiterensis Twenhofel 1928 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Acernaspis orestes Billings 1860 trilobite