Plicoplasia-Leptostrophia community, Grande Greve Fm., Shiphead Mbr., Forillon P (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.9° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° S, 19.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Shiphead Member (Grande Greve Formation), Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• "Siegenian (upper Held.)"

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; argillaceous limestone and shale

• "irreg bedded massive, dense calcilutite and calcisiltite, interb w/fissile arg. ls; macroscopic ch[illeg.]. shallowest of 4, quiet."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. J. Lesperance and P. M. Sheehan. 1975. Middle Gaspe Limestone communities on the Forillon Peninsula, Quebec, Canada (Siegenian, Lower Devonian). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 17:309-326 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 599: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Lesperance and Sheehan, 1975" [list is "in order of dominance"]
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unclassified
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Crypicardina sp.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
Strophomenida indet., Dawsonelloides sp.
Strophomenida indet. Opik 1934
strophomenid
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Strophodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta), Megastrophia sp.
"Strophodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta) Hall 1852
Megastrophia sp. Caster 1939
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Leptostrophia sp.
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp.
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula sp.
Gypidula sp. Hall 1867
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
Megakozlowskiella sp.
 Spiriferida - Acrospiriferidae
Costispirifer arenosus, Acrospirifer murchisoni
Acrospirifer murchisoni Castelneau 1843
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Plicoplasia plicata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Meristella champlaini
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina rostrata
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
Leptocoelia flabellites
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet.
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
rhynchonellid - originally entered as "Rhynchonellida indet."
 Rhynchonellida - Eatoniidae
Eatonia sp., Pleiopleurina pleiopleura
 Terebratulida - Centronellidae
Beachia thunei
 Orthida -
Orthida indet.
Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932
dalmanellid
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Salopina sp.
Salopina sp. Boucot 1960
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Discomyorthis musculosa
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
? Trepostome and Cryptostome
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras spirale, "Platyceras perceense" = Platyostoma perceense
Platyceras spirale Hall 1859 snail
"Platyceras perceense" = Platyostoma perceense Clarke 1908 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
pelecypod
Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Conularia sp.
Conularia sp. jellyfish