A0259 Galiote River, Anticosti Island: Telychian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea - Actinostromatida - Pseudolabechiidae
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Stegerhynchus vicina (Billings 1866)
Jin and Copper 2004 6 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Quebec
Coordinates: 49.3° North, 63.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.7° South, 80.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Silurian Epoch: Llandovery
Stage: Telychian 10 m.y. bin: Silurian 1
Key time interval: Telychian
Age range of interval: 438.5 - 433.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chicotte
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower reefal unit
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 1415
Database number:113389
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Wagner Enterer:U. Merkel, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-07-29 19:13:38 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-07-29 19:13:38
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
36753. H. Nestor, P. Copper, and C. Stock. 2010. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian stromatoporoid sponges from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: Crossing the O/S mass extinction boundary 1-163 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

61966 J. Jin and P. Copper. 2004. Evolution of the Early Silurian rhynchonellide brachiopod Stegerhynchus, Anticosti Island, eastern Canada. Journal of Paleontology 78(5):866-883 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]