AN87 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.4° N, 63.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 35.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jupiter Formation, Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• lower part of formation

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified shale and lithified limestone

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 187776: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 11.08.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Lichida - Lichidae
Arctinurus sp. Castelnau 1843 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Acernaspis orestes Billings 1860 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinurus sp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite