Where: Québec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 22.0° S, 86.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gun River Formation (Anticosti Group), Alexandrian (443.4 - 436.0 Ma)

• Basal Gun River Formation

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone and lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collection also includes small brachiopods, solitary rugose corals, small tabulates, and calcareous green algae. Only atrypoid brachiopods described.

Primary reference: P. Copper. 1981. Atrypoid brachiopods and their distribution in the Ordovician-Silurian sequence of Anticosti Island. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group, Stratigraphy and Paleontology 2:137-141 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24588: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 11.08.2002

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