AN42 (Silurian to of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.3° N, 62.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 22.7° S, 81.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Richardson or Cybele Member (Jupiter Formation), Aeronian to Aeronian (440.5 - 432.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, gray lime mudstone and lithified, calcareous mudstone

• Cybele: gray lithographic limestone; Richardson: calcareous shales and mudstones. Type of rock fossils collected from not specified.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

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 186061: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 08.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Acernaspis orestes
Acernaspis orestes Billings 1860 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Nucleurus anticostiensis, Encrinurus jini
Encrinurus jini Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene nowlani n. sp., Diacalymene schucherti
Calymene nowlani n. sp. Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite
Diacalymene schucherti Twenhofel 1928 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
"Lichidae" indet.
"Lichidae" indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite