Also known as Reef 1408
Where: Quebec, Canada (48.2° N, 64.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° S, 29.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Colline Daniel Member (West Point Formation), Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)
• Chaleurs Bay Synclinorium
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
•Tectonic Region: Northern Appalachian mobile belt
•Depositional Setting: siliclastic-dominated shelf
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Not included in Taxonomic List: bryozoans, sponges
Primary reference: P. A. Bourque and G. Amyot. 1989. Stromatoporoid-Coral Reefs of the upper West Point Reef Complex,Late Silurian, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec. In H.H.J. Geldsetzer, N.P. James, G.E. Tebbutt (eds.), Reefs, Canada and Adjacent Area 13:251-257 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75928: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 06.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhodophyceae | |
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906 | |
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema | |
Sphaerocodium | |
Sphaerocodium sp. Rothpletz 1890 | |
Renalcis | |
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932 | |
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Anthozoa | |
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral |