A0259 Galiote River, Anticosti Island (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1415

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.3° N, 63.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 22.7° S, 80.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chicotte Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• lower reefal unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; 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 113389: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.07.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Stegerhynchus vicina Billings 1866
Stromatoporoidea
 Actinostromatida - Pseudolabechiidae
Pachystroma brickense Nestor et al. 2010 stromatoporoid sponge