Riviere Galiote C, Anticosti Isl., Canada (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1415

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.2° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.8° S, 33.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chicotte Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• Reef dominated by stromatoporoids

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. R. Brunton and P. Copper. 1994. Paleoecologic, temporal, and spatial analysis of Early Silurian reefs of the Chicotte Formation, Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. Facies 31:57-80 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25253: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 05.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Entelophyllidae
Entelophyllum sp. Wedekind 1927 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Petridiostroma sp. Stearn 1992 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge