Becscie Bay, Anticosti Island, Chabot Member upper part: Rhuddanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Ecclimadictyon sp. Nestor 1964
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Stauriidae
Palaeophyllum sp. Billings 1858
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Donacophyllum sp. Dybowski 1873
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Proporidae
Propora sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Paleofavosites sp. Twenhofel 1914
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Virgianidae
Virgiana sp. Twenhofel 1914
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Quebec
Coordinates: 49.7° North, 64.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.6° South, 89.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Silurian Epoch: Llandovery
Stage: Rhuddanian 10 m.y. bin: Silurian 1
Key time interval: Rhuddanian
Age range of interval: 443.8 - 440.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Becscie Member:Chabot
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
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
Database number:197360
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-11-07 08:47:37 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2019-02-07 08:47:37
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

67308. J. Jin and P. Copper. 2010. Origin and evolution of the early Silurian (Rhuddanian) virgianid pentameride brachiopods - the extinction recovery fauna from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 49(1):1-11 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]