A1232 Salmon road, Anticosti Island (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.4° N, 62.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 20.9° S, 88.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chabot Member (Becscie Formation), Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. Nestor, P. Copper, and C. Stock. 2010. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian stromatoporoid sponges from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: Crossing the O/S mass extinction boundary 1-163 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113328: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon boreale Riabinin 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Ecclimadictyon macrotuberculatum Riabinin 1951 stromatoporoid sponge