Gaspé Peninsula, Chaleurs Bay Synclinorium, Matapedia Group (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (47.8° N, 65.5° W: paleocoordinates 24.4° S, 40.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Costistricklandia lirata zone, Matapedia Group, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. J. Boucot and P. A. Bourque. 1981. Brachiopod biostratigraphy of the Llandoverian rocks of the Gaspé Peninsula. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 2:315-321 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25123: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 28.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Cliftonia sp. Foerste 1909
Triplesia sp. Hall 1859
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
"Cryptothyrella sp." = Hindella
"Cryptothyrella sp." = Hindella Davidson 1882
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Hederellidae
Hederella sp. Hall 1883