Gaspé Peninsula, Anse a Pierre-Loiselle Formation (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (48.7° N, 65.8° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 34.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Anse a Pierre-Loiselle Formation (Chaleurs Group), Niagaran (438.0 - 421.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray shale and limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• Gray shale with limestone nodules.

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: G. S. Nowlan. 1981. Late Ordovician - Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy of the Gaspé Peninsula - a preliminary report. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 2:257-291 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25051: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 26.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Distomodontidae
Distomodus spp. Branson and Branson 1947 conodont
Distomodus staurognathoides Walliser 1964 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Pterospathodus pennatus Walliser 1964 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
? Oulodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Pseudooneotodus beckmanni Bischoff and Sannemann 1958 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
"Spathognathodus cf. gulletensis" = Ozarkodina gulletensis, Ozarkodina simplex
"Spathognathodus cf. gulletensis" = Ozarkodina gulletensis Aldridge 1972 conodont
Spathognathodus c.f. gulletensis s.f.
Ozarkodina simplex Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Ozarkodina simplex s.f.
 Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
"Prioniodella inclinata" = Wurmiella excavata
"Prioniodella inclinata" = Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Prioniodella inclinata s.f.
 Ozarkodinida - Pterospathodontidae
Apsidognathus tuberculatus Walliser 1964 conodont
Carniodus carnulus Walliser 1964 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
"Panderodus recurvatus" = Panderodus panderi Stauffer 1940 conodont
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Walliserodus curvatus Branson and Branson 1947 conodont