Also known as Reef 1391

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.5° N, 71.1° W: paleocoordinates 24.3° S, 47.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Unit 4 Member (Simard Formation), Chatfieldian to Chatfieldian (453.8 - 450.2 Ma)

• PJW: Entered as "Chicoutimi Limestone" as authors didn't name it. However, it seems to be the uppermost Simard formation (Unit 4) given Desbiens & Lespérance (1989: fig. 1). The Edenian age was tentative, but this unit spans upper Chatfieldian - lower Edenian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: T. L. Harland and R. K. Pickerill. 1989. Patch reefs in Ordovician limestones, St.-Honoré, Quebec. In H. H. J. Geldsetzer, N. P. James, and G. E. Tebbutt (eds.), Reefs, Canada and adjacent areas. Canadian Soc. Petrol. Geologists, Memoir 13:201-207 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45286: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.10.2004, edited by Pete Wagner

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