Anticosti Island, base of Becscie Fm, east side of Baie Ellis, section 0, C33 (Silurian to of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.8° N, 64.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 21.2° S, 88.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Becscie Formation, Rhuddanian to Rhuddanian (443.4 - 438.5 Ma)

• lower half of the Llandovery (Lower Silurian) succession of Rhuddanian-

•early Aeronian age

Environment/lithology: offshore; argillaceous mudstone

• The Becscie Formation, approximately 130 m thick, was interpreted as deposited on a low-energy, muddy, carbonate to argillaceous ramp subject to short-lived, episodic, highenergy storms.
• argillaceous, mud-dominated

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: S. Zhang and C. R. Barnes. 2002. A New Llandovery (Early Silurian) Conodont Biozonation and Conodonts from the Becscie,Merrimack, and Gun River Formations, Anticosti Island, Québec. Memoir (The Paleontological Society) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142519: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Distomodontidae
Distomodus kentuckyensis
Distomodus kentuckyensis Branson and Branson 1947 conodont