Anticosti Island, Cap a l'Ours, Ellis Bay Formation Member 6: Richmondian - Gamachian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Stauriidae
Palaeophyllum clion
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878
see common names

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
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
*Period:Late/Upper Ordovician *Epoch:Ashgillian
*Local age/stage:Richmondian - Gamachian
Key time interval:Richmondian - Gamachian
Age range of interval:449.80000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Jolliet Formation:Ellis Bay Member:6
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Petryk's Member 6; exposed only in the platform.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Comparatively clean lime carbonates."
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: Environmental call by T. Hanson.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Collection also includes colonies of cateniporids, heliolitids, and favositids.
Metadata
Database number:24384
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:S. Holland Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-08-06 11:34:07 Last modified:2005-03-18 16:29:50
Access level:the public Released:2002-08-06 11:34:07
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]