AN8: Aeronian - Telychian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Stenopareia grandis (Billings 1859)
5 specimens
Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Kettneraspis sp. Prantl and Pribyl 1949
1 specimen
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Diacalymene schucherti (Twenhofel 1928)
1 specimen
Trilobita - Phacopida - Phacopidae
Acernaspis boltoni
2 specimens
Acernaspis orestes (Billings 1860)
6 specimens
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Hadromeros nuperus
3 specimens
Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Nucleurus anticostiensis
9 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Quebec
Coordinates: 49.5° North, 63.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.1° South, 34.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Llandovery
10 m.y. bin:Silurian 1
Key time interval:Aeronian - Telychian
Age range of interval:440.80000 - 433.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jupiter Member:Richardson or Cybèle
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:very fine,gray lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified calcareous mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: broad belt of shale-dominated strata that extends across Anticosti Island parallel with the south coast
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Metadata
Database number:184407
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Modifier:M. Hopkins Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-02-23 14:56:54 Last modified:2017-03-15 12:24:52
Access level:the public Released:2017-02-23 14:56:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

61764. B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen. 2004. Early Silurian trilobites of Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 22 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]