Where: Québec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.6° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 34.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jupiter Formation (Anticosti Group), Aeronian to Aeronian (440.8 - 433.4 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: gray limestone and gray shale
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: Collection includes brachiopods, graptolites, cephalopods, trilobites, corals and stromatoporids.
Primary reference: C. R. Barnes, A. A. Petryk, and T. E. Bolton. 1981. Anticosti Island, Québec. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 1:1-24 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24412: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 07.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Arctinurus anticostiensis" = Anadesma shallopensis
"Arctinurus anticostiensis" = Anadesma shallopensis Twenhofel 1928 trilobite | |
Encrinurus anticostiensis trilobite | |
Diacalymene schucherti Twenhofel 1928 trilobite | |
Dalmanites jupiterensis Twenhofel 1928 trilobite | |
Acernaspis orestes Billings 1860 trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Bolbineossia labrosa ostracod | |
Zygobolba decora ostracod | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
Ehlersella davidsoni, "Stricklandia salteri" = Microcardinalia (Chiastodoca) salterii, "Stricklandia melissa" = Microcardinalia (Dauphinella) melissa
"Stricklandia salteri" = Microcardinalia (Chiastodoca) salterii Billings 1868
"Stricklandia melissa" = Microcardinalia (Dauphinella) melissa Billings 1874 | |
Dicoelosia biloba Linnaeus 1758 | |
Strophomenata | |
Brachyprion spp. Shaler 1865 | |
Gastropoda | |
Salpingostoma orientalis Twenhofel 1928 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Huroniella sp. Foerste 1924 | |
Discosorus sp. Hall 1852 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Monograptus sedgewickii graptolite | |
Crinoidea | |
Sagenocrinites sp. Sea lily | |
Dimerocrinites elegans Springer 1928 Sea lily | |
Eucalyptocrinites sp. Goldfuss 1831 Sea lily | |
Rhombifera | |
Caryocrinites ornatus Say 1825 |