ammonites
Cabano Fm, Late Llandovery, N. Appalachians, 59-605-Patzkowsky (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (47.9° N, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 38.0° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cabano Formation (Quebec Group), Llandovery (443.7 - 428.2 Ma)

• Quotation from text: ""Brachiopod zonation, as presently understood, requires that this fauna be no older than C1 to C2 of the upper Llandovery""

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, pebbly mudstone and lithified shale

• shale-mudstone facies, a few (less than 6) pebbly mudstone beds, no thicker than 3 ft., are found within the uppermost 500 ft [of the formation].

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. G. Ayrton, W.B.N. Berry, A.J. Boucot, J. Lajoie, P.J. Lesperance, L. Pavlides, and W.B. Skidmore. 1969. Lower Llandovery of the Northern Appalachians and Adjacent Regions. Geological Society of America Bulletin 80:459-484 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug] more details

PaleoDB collection 11322: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 10.08.2001