Gaspe Pennisula, Roncelles Fm. (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.8° N, 64.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° S, 23.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: upper Member (Roncelles Formation), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• "upper Gedinnian"

Environment/lithology: offshore; gray, calcareous siltstone and shale

• "med-bedded, gray, calcareous mudstone with beds of shale, calcareous sltst and nodular calc. sltst. mid to outer? shelf; transgressive sequence. BA4"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. J. Lesperance and P. A. Bourque. 1970. Silurian and basal Devonian strata of northeastern Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec. AAPG Bulletin 54:1868-1886 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 654: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "P.J. Lesperance and P.-A. Bourque. 1970. Sil and basal Dev strat of NE Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec. AAPG Bull. 54:1868-1886"
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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Synphoria sp.
Synphoria sp. Clarke 1900 trilobite
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion sp.
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
? Lepidoproetus sp.
? Lepidoproetus sp. Erben 1951 trilobite
originally entered as "? Lepidoproetus sp."
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira sp.
Coelospira sp. Hall 1863
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
? Athyris sp.
? Athyris sp.
originally entered as "? Athyris sp."
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Meristella sp.
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
Kozlowskiellina sp.
Kozlowskiellina sp. Boucot 1958
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
Dicoelosia sp.
Dicoelosia sp. King 1850
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp., Levenea sp.
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
Levenea sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
Lissatrypa sp.
Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Atrypina sp.
Atrypina sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp.
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp.
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Plectodonta sp.
Plectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus sp.
Monograptus sp. graptolite
Crinoidea
 Flexibilia -
Icthyocrinus sp.
Icthyocrinus sp. Conrad 1842 Sea lily
originally entered as "Ichthyocrinus sp."
 Monobathrida - Scyphocrinitidae
"Camarocrinus sp." = Scyphocrinites
"Camarocrinus sp." = Scyphocrinites Zenker 1833 Sea lily