ammonites
Lake Memphremagog, Upper Siltstone, Quebec, Canada (Silurian to of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1428

Where: Quebec, Canada (45.1° N, 72.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° S, 34.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Calcareous Siltstone Formation, Ludlow to Ludlow (422.9 - 416.0 Ma)

• upper Ludlovian - lower Pridolian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, dolomitic, calcareous siltstone and lithified, argillaceous packstone

• Two lithofacies combined: dolomitic siltstone (in part nodular) and skeletal packstone-grainstone (peri-reefal)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. C. Hughson and C. W. Stearn. 1989. Upper Silurian reefal facies of the Memphremagog - Marbleton area, Eastern Townships, Quebec Appalachians. In H. H. J. Geldsetzer, N. P. James, and G. E. Tebbutt (eds.), Reefs, Canada and adjacent areas. Canadian Soc. Petrol. Geologists, Memoir 13:306-315 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45296: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.10.2004