AN71 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.2° N, 61.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 34.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ozarkodina strena conodont zone, Lachute Member (Gun River Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone and lithified shale

• Authors do not specify which lithology fossils were sampled from.
• Hard, slabby, well-bedded micritic limestone and minor shale.

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 186091: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 09.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Failleana sp.
Failleana sp. Chatterton and Ludvigson 1976 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Proetus achabae" = Astroproetus achabae
"Proetus achabae" = Astroproetus achabae Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene nowlani
Calymene nowlani Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite