A627 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.5° N, 62.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 20.8° S, 88.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Collection A627 of Dewing 1999. Same collection names are used by Jin 1989, Jin and Zhan 2008, and Li and Copper 2006.

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•The collection is noted by Dewing to be from 8.5 km down Natiscotek Road, Becscie Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, calcareous lime mudstone

• Member description taken from 2007 Long. Tempestite frequency curves: a key to Late Ordovician and Early Silurian subsidence, sea-level change, and orbital forcing in the Anticosti foreland basin, Quebec, Canada. Can. J. Earth Sci. Vol. 44, 413-431. "The Becscie Formation consists of 124 to 126 m of pre-

•dominantly light grey to pale yellow micrite and calcarenite

•that has been divided into two members (Copper and Long

•1989; Sami 1989; Sami and Desrochers 1992; Long and

•Copper 1994)."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by P. Copper

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: K. Dewing. 1999. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian strophomenid brachiopods of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. In A. D. McCracken (ed.), Palaeontographica Canadiana 17:1-143 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159217: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 29.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"Leptaena quadrilatera" = Strophomena rhomboidalis
"Leptaena quadrilatera" = Strophomena rhomboidalis Logan 1863