Plicoplasia-Leptostrophia community, Grande Greve Fm., Shiphead Mbr., Forillon P (Devonian of Canada)
Where: Quebec, Canada (48.9° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° S, 20.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Shiphead Member (Grande Greve Formation), Pragian (412.3 - 409.1 Ma)
• "Siegenian (upper Held.)"
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; argillaceous limestone and shale
• "irreg bedded massive, dense calcilutite and calcisiltite, interb w/fissile arg. ls; macroscopic ch[illeg.]. shallowest of 4, quiet."
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. J. Lesperance and P. M. Sheehan. 1975. Middle Gaspe Limestone communities on the Forillon Peninsula, Quebec, Canada (Siegenian, Lower Devonian). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 17:309-326 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 599: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999