AN24: Telychian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Distyrax sp. Lane 1988
1 individual
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
21 individuals
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Styginidae
2 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Quebec County:Anticosti Island
Coordinates: 49.4° North, 63.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.6° South, 80.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Silurian Epoch: Llandovery
Stage: Telychian 10 m.y. bin: Silurian 1
Key time interval: Telychian
Age range of interval: 438.6 - 432.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chicotte
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:massive,shelly/skeletal lithified grainstone
Lithology description: thick to massive bedded encrinites
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Metadata
Database number:185538
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Modifier:M. Hopkins Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-04-27 17:03:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-04-27 17:03:42
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

61764. B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen. 2004. Early Silurian trilobites of Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 22 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]