Anticosti Island, Mouth of the Jupiter River, Jupiter Formation Type Section: Aeronian - Telychian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea - Sagenocrinida - Sagenocrinitidae
Sagenocrinites sp.
Crinoidea - Diplobathrida - Dimerocrinitidae
Dimerocrinites elegans Springer 1928
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Eucalyptocrinitidae
Eucalyptocrinites sp. Goldfuss 1831
Rhombifera - Caryocrinitidae
Caryocrinites ornatus Say 1825
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus sedgewickii
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Triplesia anticostiensis
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Brachyprion spp.
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae
Stricklandia melissa (Billings 1874)
recombined as Microcardinalia (Dauphinella) melissa
Stricklandia salteri (Billings 1868)
recombined as Microcardinalia (Chiastodoca) salterii
Ehlersella davidsoni
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer radiatus (Sowerby 1834)
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Atrypina jupiterensis
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
Eocoelia hemispherica
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
Dicoelosia biloba (Linnaeus 1758)
Cephalopoda - Discosorida - Discosoridae
Discosorus sp. Hall 1852
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Trimeroceratidae
Eotrimeroceras jupiterrense
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Acleistoceratidae
Amphicyrtoceras futile
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Huroniidae
Huroniella sp. Foerste 1924
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Salpingostoma orientalis Twenhofel 1928
Ostracoda - Zygobolbidae
Zygobolba decora
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Bolbineossia labrosa
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Diacalymene schucherti (Twenhofel 1928)
Trilobita - Phacopida - Phacopidae
Acernaspis orestes (Billings 1860)
Trilobita - Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites jupiterensis (Twenhofel 1928)
Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinurus anticostiensis
Trilobita - Lichida - Lichidae
Arctinurus anticostiensis (Northrop 1939)
synonym of Anadesma shallopensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Québec
Coordinates: 49.5° North, 63.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.1° South, 34.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Llandovery
10 m.y. bin:Silurian 1
*Period:Early/Lower Silurian *Local age/stage:Alexandrian - Niagaran
Key time interval:Aeronian - Telychian
Age range of interval:440.80000 - 433.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Anticosti Formation:Jupiter
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray "limestone"
Secondary lithology:gray "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Thin- to medium-bedded, gray-blue to brown-gray limestone, locally argillaceous to marly, grading into wackestone. Interbedded with green-gray shale, locally calcareous, with local sandy rippled beds.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: Environmental call by T. Hanson.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Collection includes brachiopods, graptolites, cephalopods, trilobites, corals and stromatoporids.
Metadata
Database number:24412
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-08-07 09:36:47 Last modified:2014-08-12 11:44:37
Access level:the public Released:2002-08-07 09:36:47
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:

52199 C. H. Holland and P. Copper. 2008. Ordovician and Silurian nautiloid cephalopods from Anticosti Island: traject across the Ordovician-Silurian (O-S) boundary. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45(9):1015-1038 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]