SUNY-B 1705 (CUPB) L'Anse-a-Brillant quarry, Gaspe bay (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as South shore

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.6° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° S, 13.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Malbaie Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Base of Malbaie Formation (McGregor calls it Top of Middle Devonian), just above Battery Point Formation. Base of Malbaie is massive conglomerate.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, adpression, permineralized, original carbon, replaced with pyrite, replaced with limonite

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Collected by Banks, Hueber, McGregor, Hills, in July 3, 1962.

Primary reference: W. E. Stein. 2002. SUNY-Binghamton Paleobiology Collection. [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 29000: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Manuela Gonzalez on 11.03.2003

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Taxonomic list

Progymnospermopsida
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Tetraxylopteris sp. Beck 1957
Identified by collectors.
unclassified
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Euphyllophytina "B1"
Ridged axis (dia. <3 mm)
Euphyllophytina "B2"
Ridged axis (dia. 3-10 mm)
Euphyllophytina "B4"
Ridged axis (dia. >20 mm)
Euphyllophytina "BY1"
Ridged axis with dichotomous ramification (dia. <3 mm)
Euphyllophytina "BX2"
Ridged axis with multiple dichotomous ramifications (dia. 3-10 mm)
Euphyllophytina "C2"
Irregularly patterned axis (dia. 3-10 mm)
Asteroxylon
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cf. Asteroxylon sp. Kidston and Lang 1920
Identified by collectors.