Anticosti Island, Becscie Formation (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 35.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Zygobolba erecta zone, Becscie Formation (Anticosti Group), Alexandrian (443.4 - 436.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• Thinly-bedded limestone. Lithology from P. Copper. 1981. Atrypoid brachiopods and their distribution in the Ordovician-Silurian sequence of Anticosti Island. Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group, Stratigraphy and Paleontology 2:137-141. Edited by P. J. Lespérance.

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: M. J. Copeland. 1981. Latest Ordovician and Silurian ostradcode faunas from 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 2:185-195 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24830: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 21.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida -
"Oepikellacea sp." = Oepikelloidea
"Oepikellacea sp." = Oepikelloidea Jaanusson 1957 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Craspedobolbininae sp.
Craspedobolbininae sp. Martinsson 1962 ostracod
 Palaeocopida -
"Kloedenellacea sp." = Kloedenioidea
"Kloedenellacea sp." = Kloedenioidea Ulrich and Bassler 1908 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Kirkbyellidae
Kirkbyellidae sp.
Kirkbyellidae sp. Sohn 1961 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Hollinidae
Hollinidae sp.
Hollinidae sp. Swartz 1936 ostracod
 Palaeocopida -
Leperditellacea sp.
Leperditellacea sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Aechminidae
Aechminidae sp.
Aechminidae sp. Boucek 1936 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Bolliidae
Bolliidae sp.
Bolliidae sp. Boucek 1936 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae
Zygobolbinae sp.
Zygobolbinae sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1923 ostracod
 Beyrichiacea -
Beyrichiacea sp.
Beyrichiacea sp. Matthew 1886 ostracod