Where: Québec, Canada (48.7° N, 65.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 22.9° S, 88.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Weir Formation (Chaleurs Group), Alexandrian (443.4 - 436.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and gray siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: chemical,

• Brachiopods reported by Ayrton et al. (1969).

Primary reference: G. S. Nowlan. 1981. Late Ordovician - Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy of the Gaspé Peninsula - a preliminary report. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 2:257-291 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25049: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 26.08.2002

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