A269 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.3° N, 63.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.7° S, 33.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chicotte Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal lime mudstone and lithified reef rocks

• "thick to massive bedded encrinites and small isolated reefs"

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 187872: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 14.08.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Stenopareia duffyae n. sp.
Stenopareia duffyae n. sp. Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Failleana wangi
Failleana wangi Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite