Anticosti Island, Mouth of the Jupiter River, Jupiter Formation Type Section (Silurian to of Canada)

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

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• Thin- to medium-bedded, gray-blue to brown-gray limestone, locally argillaceous to marly, grading into wackestone. Interbedded with green-gray shale, locally calcareous, with local sandy rippled beds.

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
 Lichida - Lichidae
"Arctinurus anticostiensis" = Anadesma shallopensis
"Arctinurus anticostiensis" = Anadesma shallopensis Twenhofel 1928 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Diacalymene schucherti Twenhofel 1928 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites jupiterensis Twenhofel 1928 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Acernaspis orestes Billings 1860 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
 Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae
"Stricklandia salteri" = Microcardinalia (Chiastodoca) salterii Billings 1868
"Stricklandia melissa" = Microcardinalia (Dauphinella) melissa Billings 1874
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
Dicoelosia biloba Linnaeus 1758
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Brachyprion spp. Shaler 1865
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Salpingostoma orientalis Twenhofel 1928 snail
Cephalopoda
 Actinocerida - Huroniidae
Huroniella sp. Foerste 1924
 Oncocerida - Acleistoceratidae
 Oncocerida - Trimeroceratidae
 Discosorida - Discosoridae
Discosorus sp. Hall 1852
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Crinoidea
 Sagenocrinida - Sagenocrinitidae
 Diplobathrida - Dimerocrinitidae
Dimerocrinites elegans Springer 1928 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Eucalyptocrinitidae
Eucalyptocrinites sp. Goldfuss 1831 Sea lily
Rhombifera
 Hemicosmitoida - Caryocrinitidae