AK 5d, Akimiski Island, James Bay (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 3542

Where: Nunavut, Canada (53.2° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 15.4° S, 43.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral-stromatoporoid reef

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: collected area: 5 m²

Primary reference: J. Jin. 2003. The Early Silurian brachiopod Eocoelia from the Hudson Bay Basin, Canada. Palaeontology 46(5):885-902 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77341: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.01.2008, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Craniata
 Trimerellida - Trimerellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eoplectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Eomegastrophia sp. Cocks 1967
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Clorinda sp. Barrande 1879
Clorinda tumidula Billings 1866
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentameroides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Septatrypa sp. Kozlowski 1929
Septatrypa varians Poulsen 1943
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914
"Meifodia discoidalis" = Cerasina discoidalis Jin et al. 1993
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931