Anticosti Isl., Camp Becs-Scie area, Becscie Fm, sample A007: Rhuddanian - Aeronian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida
Ozarkodina strena
8 specimens
Conodonta - Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus unicostatus (Branson and Mehl 1933)
3 specimens
original and current combination Paltodus unicostatus
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Quebec
Coordinates: 49.7° North, 64.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.1° South, 36.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Llandovery
10 m.y. bin:Silurian 1
Key time interval:Rhuddanian - Aeronian
Age range of interval:443.80000 - 438.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Becscie
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower half of the Llandovery (Lower Silurian) succession of Rhuddanian-
early Aeronian age
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Lithology description: muddy, carbonate to argillaceous ramp
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Geology comments: The Becscie Formation is approximately 130 m thick; initial Llandovery deepening (flooding) phase with rhythmic,even, thin-bedded wackestone and characterized by increased lenticular intrarudston
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:142543
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-04-13 05:57:52 Last modified:2013-04-12 14:57:52
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-07-13 05:57:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

46270. S. Zhang and C. R. Barnes. 2002. A New Llandovery (Early Silurian) Conodont Biozonation and Conodonts from the Becscie,Merrimack, and Gun River Formations, Anticosti Island, Québec. Memoir (The Paleontological Society) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]