Crique de la Chaloupe (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Shallop Creek

Where: Anticosti, Canada (49.2° N, 62.5° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° S, 33.3° W)

When: Pavillon Member (Jupiter Formation), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• Jupiter Zone 9.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray limestone and shale

• Ash-grey and drab, yellow-weathering limestone with thin shale partings, the limestone having a conchoidal fracture.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: W. H. Twenhofel. 1928. Geology of Anticosti Island. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 154(2132):1-351 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229057: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.02.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea thisbe Billings 1866 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
"? Whitfieldella lara" = Meristina lara
"? Whitfieldella lara" = Meristina lara Billings 1866
Gymnolaemata
 Ctenostomata - Vinellidae
Trilobita
 Lichida - Lichidae
"Amphilichas shallopensis n. sp." = Anadesma shallopensis
"Amphilichas shallopensis n. sp." = Anadesma shallopensis Twenhofel 1928 trilobite
Camarotoechia argentea
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"? Camarotoechia argentea" = Leptolepyron argenteum
"? Camarotoechia argentea" = Leptolepyron argenteum Billings 1866