Gaspe community, Gaspe Sandstone (Devonian of Canada)
Where: Quebec, Canada (48.8° N, 64.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 12.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Gaspé Sandstone Group, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)
• "(Onesquetlawan) L. Dev (Emsian)"
Environment/lithology: shoreface; sandstone
• "ss, in part x-bedded (lower part); overlying red beds (York Mbr); above, thin-bedded; some small faunas have 'Lingula and a few spp. of small pelecypods (p.28). nearshore (BA2)?"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. M. Kindle. 1938. The correlation of certain Devonian faunas of Easter and Western Gaspe. Bulletins of American Paleontology 24(82):1-52 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 608: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "E.M. Kindle, 1938. The correlation of certain Dev faunas of eastern and western Gaspe. Bull. Am. Paleont. 24(82):1-52"
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unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Cephalopoda | |
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932 | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
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Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam | |
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam | |
Sphenotus sp. Hall 1884 clam
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam | |
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
Modiella sp. Hall 1885 clam | |
Phthonia sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 mussel | |
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
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Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Platyceras gaspense, "Diaphorostoma perceense" = Platyostoma perceense
Platyceras gaspense Clarke 1908 snail
"Diaphorostoma perceense" = Platyostoma perceense Clarke 1908 snail | |
"Callonema bellatulum" = Elasmonema bellatula
"Callonema bellatulum" = Elasmonema bellatula Hall 1861 snail | |
Holopea wakenhami snail
Holopea gaspeisa snail | |
"Tropidocyclus brevilineatus" = Sinuitina brevilineatus
"Tropidocyclus brevilineatus" = Sinuitina brevilineatus Conrad 1842 snail | |
"Bellerophon leda" = Retispira leda
"Bellerophon leda" = Retispira leda Hall 1859 snail | |
"Tropidocyclus rotalinea" = Crenistriella rotalinea
"Tropidocyclus rotalinea" = Crenistriella rotalinea Hall 1879 snail | |
"Euphemus quebecensis" = Paleuphemites quebecensis
"Euphemus quebecensis" = Paleuphemites quebecensis Clarke 1908 snail originally entered as "? Euphemus sp."
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Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818 | |
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858 | |
Lingulata | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Hederella sp. Hall 1883 | |
Fenestrellina sp. d'Orbigny 1849 | |
Hyolitha | |
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840 | |
Lophophorata | |
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Trilobita | |
Phacops sp. Emmrich 1839 trilobite | |
Euchelicerata | |
Pterygotus sp. Agassiz 1839 eurypterid | |
Malacostraca | |
Asteroidea | |
Devonaster sp. Schuchert 1914 sea star | |
Anthozoa | |
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral |