Gaspé Peninsula, Matapedia Group, East of Matapedia: Ashgill, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta - Prioniodontida
? Oulodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1933
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Icriodella superba
75 %-elements
Conodonta - Prioniodontida
Phragmodus undatus
Conodonta - Belodellida - Dapsilodontidae
Dapsilodus sp. Cooper 1976
Dapsilodus similaris
Conodonta - Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959
Panderodus gracilis (Branson and Mehl 1933)
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida
Ozarkodina pseudotypica
Ozarkodina pseudotypica Lindstrom s.f.
Conodonta
Spathognathodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1941
Spathognathodus sp. s.f.
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus sp. Lindstrom 1971
Drepanoistodus suberectus (Branson and Mehl 1933)
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Protopanderodus sp. Lindström 1971
Protopanderodus cf. liripipus Kennedy et al. 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Québec
Coordinates: 48.0° North, 66.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.0° South, 41.3° 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
*International age/stage:Pusgillian - Hirnantian *Local age/stage:Richmondian - Gamachian
Key time interval:Ashgill
Age range of interval:449.60000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Matapedia
Stratigraphy comments: Richmondian - Gamachian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray calcareous siltstone
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Gray calcareous siltstone and mudstone with shale partings.
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: 8 samples collected.
Metadata
Database number:24843
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:S. Holland Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-08-21 13:33:04 Last modified:2024-03-31 19:20:45
Access level:the public Released:2002-08-21 13:33:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6965. G. S. Nowlan. 1981. Late Ordovician - Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy of the Gaspé Peninsula - a preliminary report. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 2:257-291 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]