Anticosti Island Atrypoid Brachiopods, Jupiter Formation "Zone" 2 (Silurian to of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.5° S, 33.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: 2 Member (Jupiter Formation), Alexandrian to Alexandrian (443.4 - 428.2 Ma)

• Described as "Zone" 2.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale and limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• Alternating shales and limestones.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Genus Lissatrypa described is common only in "zone" 2 of Jupiter Formation.

Primary reference: P. Copper. 1981. Atrypoid brachiopods and their distribution in the Ordovician-Silurian sequence of Anticosti Island. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group, Stratigraphy and Paleontology 2:137-141 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24594: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 11.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Triplesia sp. Hall 1859
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
Eocoelia sp. Nikiforova 1961
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914