Gap River, Anticosti Isl., Canada: Telychian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Stromatoporoidea
- Clathrodictyida
- Clathrodictyidae
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Clathrodictyon sp.
Nicholson and Murie 1878
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abundant category | |||||||||
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Clathrodictyon vesiculosum
Nicholson and Murie 1878
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abundant category | |||||||||
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Stromatoporoidea
- Clathrodictyida
- Gerronostromatidae
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| abundant category | ||||||||||
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Stromatoporoidea
- Stromatoporida
- Stromatoporidae
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Stromatopora sp.
Goldfuss 1826
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abundant category | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Favositidae
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Favositidae indet.
Dana 1846
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Heliolitidae
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Heliolitidae indet.
Lindström 1876
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Halysitidae
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Catenipora sp.
Lamarck 1816
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| End reef builders | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Cyrtiidae
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 49.2° North, 63.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.7° South, 80.2° 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 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Silurian | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Llandovery |
| *International age/stage: | Early/Lower Telychian - Middle Telychian | ||
| Key time interval: | Telychian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 438.5 - 433.4 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Chicotte | Local bed: | Lower Reef Cluster |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "reef rocks" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Less than 1 m thck, 10-20 m wide reef. Reef core of crystalling greenish-blue calcimudstone. Dominated by stromatoporoids. | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Bioerosion: | none |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 1855 | ||
| Database number: | 25251 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-09-05 02:24:28 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-09-05 02:24:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7071. | 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] |