Northrop Locality 016. Near center of Anse-aux-Gascons (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.1° N, 65.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 29.8° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gascons Formation, Gleedonian (425.4 - 422.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157357: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Euomphalopterus gasconsensis n. sp." = Spinicharybdis gasconsensis
"Euomphalopterus gasconsensis n. sp." = Spinicharybdis gasconsensis Northrop 1939 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Mytilarca acutirostra Hall 1865 clam