Gaspé Peninsula, Matapedia Group, East of Matapedia (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (48.0° N, 66.9° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 41.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Matapedia Group, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• Richmondian - Gamachian

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; gray, calcareous siltstone and shale

• Gray calcareous siltstone and mudstone with shale partings.

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: chemical,

• 8 samples collected.

Primary reference: G. S. Nowlan. 1981. Late Ordovician - Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy of the Gaspé Peninsula - a preliminary report. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 2:257-291 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24843: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 21.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
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Spathognathodus sp.
Spathognathodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1941 conodont
Spathognathodus sp. s.f.
 Prioniodontida -
Phragmodus undatus
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Icriodella superba
 Prioniodontida -
? Oulodus sp.
? Oulodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Protopanderodus sp., Protopanderodus cf. liripipus
Protopanderodus sp. Lindström 1971 conodont
Protopanderodus cf. liripipus Kennedy et al. 1979 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus sp., Drepanoistodus suberectus
Drepanoistodus sp. Lindstrom 1971 conodont
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina pseudotypica
Ozarkodina pseudotypica conodont
Ozarkodina pseudotypica Lindstrom s.f.
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus sp., Panderodus gracilis
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Belodellida - Dapsilodontidae
Dapsilodus sp., Dapsilodus similaris
Dapsilodus sp. Cooper 1976 conodont