Anticosti Island, Ellis Bay Formation Member 5 Conodonts (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 38.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: 5 Member (Ellis Bay Formation), Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• Limestone with shale partings or interbeds.

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: chemical,

• Conodonts only.

Primary reference: A. D. McCracken and C. R. Barnes. 1981. Conodont biostratigraphy across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary, Ellis Bay Formation, Anticosti Island, Québec. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group, Stratigraphy and Paleontology 2:61-69 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24574: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 10.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Eobelodina spp.
Eobelodina n. sp. A s.f., Eobelodina n. sp. B s.f.
Conodonta
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus panderi Stauffer 1940 conodont
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Panderodus serratus Rexroad 1967 conodont
Panderodus serratus s.f.
 Ozarkodinida -
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Walliserodus cf. curvatus Branson and Branson 1947 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
Oulodus rohneri conodont
Oulodus ulrichi conodont
Pseudooneotodus beckmanni Bischoff and Sannemann 1958 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Strachanognathidae
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae