C661: Telychian, Canada
collected by P. Copper

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
6 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Ancillotoechia eva (Billings 1866)
Jin 1989 1 specimen
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Heterorthidae
Heterorthina cybele Li and Copper 2006
Li and Copper 2006 85 specimens
unclassified
Platytrochalos crudicostatus Jin 1989
Jin 1989 25 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Quebec
Coordinates: 49.6° North, 63.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.4° South, 33.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Llandovery
Stage:Telychian 10 m.y. bin:Silurian 1
Key time interval:Telychian
Age range of interval:438.50000 - 433.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jupiter Member:Cybele
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Collection C661 of Dewing 1999. Same collection names are used by Jin 1989, Jin and Zhan 2008, and Li and Copper 2006.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,hardground lithified calcareous lime mudstone
Lithology description: Member description taken from 2007 Long. Tempestite frequency curves: a key to Late Ordovician and Early Silurian subsidence, sea-level change, and orbital forcing in the Anticosti foreland basin, Quebec, Canada. Can. J. Earth Sci. Vol. 44, 413-431. "The 32 to 34 m thick Cybèle Member is characterized by thin- to medium-bedded, predominantly barren micrites with minor thin calcarenites. Bioturbation and hardground surfaces are common. Laminated calcareous mudstones may be present locally but are poorly exposed."
Environment:carbonate indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:P. Copper
Taxonomic list comments:Brachiopods only.
Metadata
Database number:158730
Authorizer:S. Finnegan Enterer:S. Finnegan
Modifier:S. Finnegan
Created:2014-07-22 15:23:49 Last modified:2016-01-07 16:26:23
Access level:the public Released:2014-07-22 15:23:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

51869. K. Dewing. 1999. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian strophomenid brachiopods of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. In A. D. McCracken (ed.), Palaeontographica Canadiana 17:1-143 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan]

Secondary references:

51868 J. Jin. 1989. Late Ordovician - Early Silurian rhynchonellid brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Quebec. Biostratigraphie du Paleozoique 10:5-125 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan]
51867 R. Li and P. Copper. 2006. Early Silurian (Llandovery) orthide brachiopods from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: the O/S extinction recovery fauna. Special Papers in Palaeontology 76:5-71 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan]