Anticosti Island, Québec, upper Vaureal bioherms-biostromes (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° S, 40.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vaureal Formation, Edenian to Edenian (460.9 - 443.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. E. Bolton. 1988. Stromatoporoidea from the Ordovician rocks of central and eastern Canada. Contributions to Canadian paleontology, Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 379:17-45 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27238: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 23.11.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Identified by Twenhofel, 1928; Galloway and St. Jean, 1961; Bolton, 1981.
Protozoa
 Spumellaria -
Beatricea undulata Billings 1857 radiolarian
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Aulaceratidae
Aulacera radiata, "Beatricea nodulifera" = Aulacera, Beatricea nodulosa
Aulacera radiata Galloway and St Jean 1961 stromatoporoid sponge
"Beatricea nodulifera" = Aulacera stromatoporoid sponge
Beatricea nodulosa Billings 1857 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge