Gaspé Peninsula, Chaleurs Bay Synclinorium, La Vieille Formation (Silurian to of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (47.8° N, 65.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.4° S, 36.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Vieille Formation (Chaleurs Group), Niagaran to Niagaran (438.0 - 430.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: carbonate

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• Nodular calcilutute and calcsiltite and bioclastic calcarenite, locally oolitic, pisolitic, stromatolitic, oncolitic, or crinoidal. Lithology from G. S. Nowlan. 1981. Late Ordovician - Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy of the Gaspé Peninsula - a preliminary report. Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 2:257-29. Edited by P. J. Lespérance.

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 25157: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 30.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Drummockina sp., Mesopholodostrophina sp., Eopholidostrophina sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp., Delthyris sp.
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
Delthyris sp. Dalman 1828
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Macropleura sp.
Macropleura sp. Boucot 1963
 Athyridida - Hyattidinidae
Hyattidina sp.
Hyattidina sp. Schuchert 1913
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira sp.
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Meristina sp.
Meristina sp. Hall 1867
 Athyridida - Meristidae
Merista sp.
Merista sp. Suess 1851
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Atrypina sp.
Atrypina sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp., Atrypa reticularis
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
"Atrypa" sp.
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
Atrypa "reticularis"
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
Dicoelosia sp.
Dicoelosia sp. King 1850
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp.
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina sp.
Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp.
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus sp.
Pentamerus sp. Sowerby 1813
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Clorinda sp.
Clorinda sp. Barrande 1879
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula sp.
Gypidula sp. Hall 1867
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Anastrophia sp.
Anastrophia sp. Hall 1867
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Plectodonta sp.
Plectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Protomegastrophia sp.
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
Strophonella sp.
Strophonella sp. Hall 1879
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
Leptaena "rhomboidalis"
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp.
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail