AN10B (Silurian of Canada)
Where: Quebec, Canada (49.8° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 36.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Becscie Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, gray grainstone
• Formation is "hard, slabby, evenly bedded, and tan to grey limestones...locally very fossiliferous but other parts appear entirely to lack fossils"; this collection is from a basal calcarenite.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen. 2004. Early Silurian trilobites of Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 22 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184412: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 23.02.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita | |
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite | |
Failleana magnifica Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite | |
Exallaspis sp. Ramsköld and Chatterton 1991 trilobite |