Where: Québec, Canada (49.8° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 37.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Parastro Member (Ellis Bay Formation), Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shale and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. A. C. Gushulak. 2016. First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian. Western University [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184847: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.03.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Parastrophinella reversa Billings 1857 | |
Vinlandostrophia sp. Zuykov and Harper 2007 | |
Hindella sp. Davidson 1882 | |
Eospirigerina sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1930 |