A0612. Cap de la Vache-qui-Pisse (Junction Cliff), ~14.5 km NW of Port-Menier: Richmondian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ascocerida
- Ascoceratidae
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Schuchertoceras anticostiense
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Schuchertoceras newberryi
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Lophospiridae
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Lophospira sp.
Whitfield 1886
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pterineidae
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Pterinea sp.
Goldfuss 1832
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Atrypinidae
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Spirigerina (Fospirigerina) praemarginalis
(Savage 1913)
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| synonym of Atrypa putilla | |||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Meristellidae
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Hindella umbonata
(Billings 1862)
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Hindella prinstana
(Billings 1862)
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Hesperorthidae
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Hesperorthis laurentina
(Billings 1857)
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Rhipidomellidae
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Mendacella uberis
(Billings 1866)
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Leptaena sp.
Dalman 1828
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Strophomenata
- Billingsellida
- Clitambonitidae
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Vellamo diversa
(Shaler 1865)
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pterygometopidae
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Chasmops anticostiensis
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Québec |
| Coordinates: | 49.8° North, 64.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.7° South, 39.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Ordovician - Early/Lower Silurian | *Epoch: | Llandoverian (minimum) | *Local age/stage: | Richmondian |
| Key time interval: | Richmondian | Graptolite zone: | Paraorthograptus pacificus |
| Age range of interval: | 449.80000 - 446.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Vaureal | Member: | Grindstone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Member 1 = Grindstone (PJW). Hercochitina crickmayi zone. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | argillaceous "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "10 m of green and grey shale, nodular argillaceous limestone (skeletal wackestone to packstone) and dense, lensy (rippled) lime packstone and grainstone." | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: Environmental call by T. Hanson. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Anticosti Island, Junction Cliff, Ellis Bay Formation Member 1 | ||
| Database number: | 24330 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Holland | Enterer: | T. Hanson |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-08-05 10:41:20 | Last modified: | 2018-03-13 14:01:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-08-05 10:41:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6866. | C. R. Barnes, A. A. Petryk, and T. E. Bolton. 1981. Anticosti Island, Québec. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 1:1-24 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning] |
Secondary references:
| 65007 | P. Copper, J. Jin, and A. Desrochers. 2013. The Ordovician-Silurian boundary (late Katian-Hirnantian) of western Anticosti Island: revised stratigraphy and benthic megafaunal correlations. Stratigraphy 10(4):213-227 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |