AN6 700 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.8° N, 64.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 20.6° S, 89.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• 700 cm above top of Platform Bed of underlying Ellis Bay Formation

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone

• hard, slabby, evenly bedded, and tan to grey limestones...locally very fossiliferous but other parts appear entirely to lack fossils

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the GSC

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 184380: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 23.02.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Proetus lindoei
Proetus lindoei Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
Maurotarion sp.
Maurotarion sp. Alberti 1969 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Failleana sp.
Failleana sp. Chatterton and Ludvigson 1976 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Exallaspis sp., Kettneraspis aff. jaanussoni
Exallaspis sp. Ramsköld and Chatterton 1991 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
Lichas menieri
Lichas menieri Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene barnesi
Calymene barnesi Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004 trilobite