A269: Telychian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Styginidae
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec | County: | Anticosti Island |
| Coordinates: | 49.3° North, 63.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.7° South, 80.3° 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 |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified lime mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified "reef rocks" |
| Lithology description: "thick to massive bedded encrinites and small isolated reefs" | |
| 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: | 187872 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-08-14 09:13:33 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-08-14 09:13:33 |
| 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] |