Riviere Galiote A, Anticosti Isl., Canada (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1415

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.2° N, 63.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 22.7° S, 80.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chicotte Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• Incompletely exposed buildup dominated by corals

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. R. Brunton and P. Copper. 1994. Paleoecologic, temporal, and spatial analysis of Early Silurian reefs of the Chicotte Formation, Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. Facies 31:57-80 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25252: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 05.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Actinostromatida - Densastromatidae
Densastroma sp.
Densastroma sp. Flügel 1959 stromatoporoid sponge
End reef builders
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Arachnophyllidae
Prodarwinia mammillaris
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora sp., Halysites sp.
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringoporidae indet.
Syringoporidae indet. Fromentel 1864 tabulate coral
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Scutellum sp.
Scutellum sp. Pusch 1833 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp.
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa (Gotatrypa) sp.