Gaspé Peninsula, Chaleurs Bay Synclinorium, Anse a Pierre-Loiselle Formation: Niagaran, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Drummockina sp.
Protomegastrophina sp.
Dalejuna sp.
Mesopholodostrophia sp.
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae
Costistricklandia lirata Sowerby 1839
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
Sphaerirhynchia sp. Cooper and Muir-Wood 1951
"Sphaerirhynchia" sp.
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Ancillotoechia sp. Havlicek 1959
" Ancillotoechia" sp.
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
Delthyris sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
"Atrypa" sp.
Atrypa reticularis (Linnaeus 1758)
original and current combination Anomia reticularis
Atrypa "reticularis"
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Hyattidinidae
Hyattidina sp. Schuchert 1913
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
Rhynchonellata - Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptaenoideidae
Leptaenisca sp. Beecher 1890
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
"Leptostrophia" sp.
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis (Wahlenberg 1818)
recombined as Leptaena (Leptaena) rhomboidalis
Leptaena "rhomboidalis"
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
Strophonella sp. Hall 1879
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Plectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Québec
Coordinates: 47.8° North, 65.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.8° South, 34.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Silurian
10 m.y. bin:Silurian 1-2
*Period:Early/Lower Silurian *Epoch:Llandoverian - Wenlockian
*International age/stage:Telychian *Local age/stage:Niagaran
Key time interval:Niagaran Zone: Costistricklandia lirata
Age range of interval:440.10000 - 422.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chaleurs Formation:Anse a Pierre-Loiselle
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Llandoverian C6 to Wenlockian age
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray "shale"
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Gray shale with limestone nodules. Lithology from G. S. Nowlan. 1981. Late Ordovician - Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy of the Gaspé Peninsula - a preliminary report. Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 2:257-291. Edited by P. J. Lespérance.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: Environmental call by T. Hanson.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:species names
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:25156
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:S. Holland Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-08-30 11:42:43 Last modified:2003-07-08 09:28:26
Access level:the public Released:2002-08-30 11:42:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7051. A. J. Boucot and P. A. Bourque. 1981. Brachiopod biostratigraphy of the Llandoverian rocks of the Gaspé Peninsula. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 2:315-321 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]