First set of exposures just above Clemville Bridge, Little Port Daniel River (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Northrop Locality 067.

Where: Québec, Canada (48.2° N, 65.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.7° S, 37.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Distomodus kentuckyensis conodont zone, Clemville Formation (Chaleurs Group), Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• Hyattidina zone, above Camarotoechia zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; green, silty, sandy mudstone

• Shelf muds with a few storm layers.
• Greenish mudstones with silty to sandy layers.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: S. A. Northrop. 1939. Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Port Daniel-Black Cape Region, Gaspé. Geological Society of America Special Paper 21:1-302 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172905: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.08.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
"Cyrtolites clemvillensis n. sp." = Zonidiscus clemvillensis
"Cyrtolites clemvillensis n. sp." = Zonidiscus clemvillensis Northrop 1939 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
"Hormotoma subulata" = Murchisonia subulata
"Hormotoma subulata" = Murchisonia subulata Conrad 1842 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites cf. cawdori
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta subcircularis, ? Tancrediopsis sp.
Ctenodonta subcircularis Prouty 1923 clam
? Tancrediopsis sp. Beushausen 1895 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea mclearni
Pterinea mclearni Northrop 1939 oyster