Also known as Anticosti Island, The Jumpers, Chicotte Formation Member 1

Where: Québec, Canada (49.4° N, 63.6° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 35.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Icriodella inconstans conodont zone, Brisantes Member (Chicotte Formation), Alexandrian (443.4 - 436.0 Ma)

• Was member 1. This is Brisantes now.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: brown limestone and gray shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Icriodella inconstans Zone conodonts. Laterally, bioherms are present, containing tabulate corals (halvsitids, favositids and heliolitids, 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 24441: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 07.08.2002

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