The trace fossil Sinusichnus from the Upper Ordovician of Anticosti Island, eastern Canada

Lethaia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Knaust ◽  
André Desrochers
Keyword(s):  
Trace Fossil ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Anticosti Island

Biostratigraphic significance of lower Paleozoic microfaunas from eastern Canada

2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 489-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Asselin ◽  
Aïcha Achab ◽  
Azzedine Soufiane
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Lower Devonian ◽  
Head Group ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Lower Paleozoic ◽  
Anticosti Island ◽  
Gaspe Peninsula ◽  
Gaspé Peninsula ◽  
Mapping Program

Chitinozoan studies recently carried out in the “Appalachian Forelands and St. Lawrence Platform” National Geoscience Mapping Program (NATMAP) project have confirmed the regional biostratigraphic value of a number of chitinozoan species and led to a better documentation of their stratigraphic and geographic distribution in eastern Canada. The typical Darriwilian microfaunas first described from the Table Head Group of western Newfoundland and containing Conochitina chydaea are now recognised in the Rivière Ouelle Formation at Les Méchins, Gaspé Peninsula. In the Upper Ordovician successions of the St. Lawrence Platform at Neuville and in the Charlevoix area, Quebec, Conochitina primitiva is indicative of the multidens–pre-americanus graptolite zonal range, Hercochitina duplicitas of the americanus Zone, and Hercochitina spinetum and Acanthochitina cancellata characterize the ruedemanni – lower spiniferus zonal interval. The occurrence of Cyathochitina vaurealensis and Hercochitina crickmayi in turbidite deposits of the Grog Brook Group of northwestern New Brunswick confirms the minimal facies dependence of these two Richmondian index species. Eisenackitina dolioliformis, characteristic of the late Aeronian and Telychian successions of Arctic Canada, Gaspé Peninsula, and Anticosti Island, is now recognised in samples from the Upsalquitch Formation of northwestern New Brunswick and the Cabano Formation of the Rimouski area in Quebec. The palynological data from Devonian successions of the Matapedia Valley, the Rimouski area, and the Beauce – Eastern Townships region show that the succession of Lower Devonian chitinozoan assemblages of the Forillon Peninsula based on short-ranging species can be used in establishing regional correlations in the Gaspé Belt.

New cyclocystoid (Phylum Echinodermata) from Anticosti Island, Quebec, and its bearing on cyclocystoid life modes

2003 ◽  
Vol 77 (5) ◽  
pp. 949-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Glass ◽  
William I. Ausich ◽  
Paul Copper
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Trace Fossil ◽  
Suspension Feeding ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Feeding Mode ◽  
Fossil Evidence ◽  
Anticosti Island ◽  
Bedding Surface

Nicholsodiscus anticostiensisnew genus and species (Mill Bay Member, Vauréal Formation, Rawtheyan, Upper Ordovician) is described from Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada.Nicholsodiscus anticostiensisn. gen. and sp. is known from two complete specimens preserved in situ with the cupule-bearing side facing toward the bedding surface. Sedimentological, petrographic, and trace fossil evidence suggest that this bedding surface had the consistency of a hardground during the lifetime of the cyclocystoids. This provides the first unequivocal evidence that cyclocystoids lived with their cupule-bearing side (ventral) toward the substratum. A cupules-down orientation results in the ambulacral grooves facing the substratum. Such an orientation excludes suspension-feeding from being a possible feeding mode of the Cyclocystoidea as discussed by Henderson and Shergold (1971).A third Anticosti Island cyclocystoid specimen of unknown affinities is described from the same locality. Furthermore, a re-examination of the holotype of“Cyclocystoides” raymondiFoerste for purposes of comparison withNicholsodiscus anticostiensisn. gen. and sp. provided evidence that it is a member ofZygocycloides, albeit with missing interseptal plates.

The heliolitid coral Acidolites in Ordovician–Silurian rocks of eastern Canada

1986 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. A. Dixon
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Lower Upper ◽  
Anticosti Island ◽  
Gaspe Peninsula ◽  
Gaspé Peninsula

Acidolites Lang, Smith and Thomas occurs in upper Middle and Upper Ordovician, Lower and lower Middle Silurian rocks of Ontario and Quebec. On Anticosti Island, Quebec, the genus is represented by A. tenuis (Billings) in the Upper Ordovician (Gamachian) Ellis Bay Formation; the new species A. arctatus, A. compactus and A. helianthus in the Ordovician–Silurian boundary beds at the top of the Ellis Bay Formation; the new species A. arctatus, A. compactus and A. lindströmi in the lower Llandoverian Becscie Formation; A. arctatus in the mid-Llandoverian Gun River Formation; and an unnamed species in the upper Llandoverian Jupiter Formation. The lower Llandoverian Clemville Formation of the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, contains Protaraea clemvillensis Parks, now considered to be Acidolites. The upper Middle to lower Upper Ordovician Cobourg Formation near Ottawa, Ontario, contains A. cf. arctatus, formerly included in Protaraea vetusta (Hall). The lower Wenlockian Amabel Formation in southern Ontario contains a species of Acidolites as yet unnamed.

scholarly journals Late Ordovician jaw-bearing polychaetes from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada, and their biogeographic significance

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (7) ◽  
pp. 731-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olle Hints ◽  
Petra Tonarová ◽  
André Desrochers
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Lower Silurian ◽  
Iapetus Ocean ◽  
The Family ◽  
Anticosti Island ◽  
First Time

The Upper Ordovician to lower Silurian shallow marine succession of Anticosti Island, eastern Canada, provides one of the most complete records across the Hirnantian in the world. This study reports a diverse assemblage of scolecodonts (polychaete jaws) from the upper Katian and Hirnantian Vauréal, Ellis Bay, and basal Becscie formations of western Anticosti. The collection of 10 samples includes ca. 30 species representing 10 families. The fauna is dominated by polychaetaspids, mochtyellids, paulinitids, and polychaeturids. The family Xanioprionidae and genera Pistoprion, Tetraprion, and Rakvereprion are documented for the first time from the Ordovician of Laurentia. The Anticosti polychaete fauna shows great similarity to the contemporaneous faunas of Baltoscandia. This is evidenced by a high relative abundance of mochtyellids and polychaeturids and a number of common species, thus suggesting that the closing Iapetus Ocean at that time did not constitute a barrier for the dispersal of jaw-bearing polychaetes. Some Laurentian influence is, however, indicated by the occurrence of hadoprionids. Distinct Katian Vauréal and Hirnantian Ellis Bay scolecodonts are likely reflecting faunal reorganization linked to local environmental changes rather than the initial phase of the Hirnantian mass extinction.

CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE UPPER ORDOVICIAN VAURÉAL FORMATION, ANTICOSTI ISLAND, EASTERN CANADA

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Sinnesael ◽  
◽  
Alain Mauviel ◽  
André Desrochers ◽  
Patrick I. McLaughlin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Anticosti Island

Maturation thermique et histoire de l'enfouissement et de la génération des hydrocarbures du bassin de l'archipel de Mingan et de l'île d'Anticosti, Canada

1990 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 731-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf Bertrand
Keyword(s):  
Carbonate Platform ◽  
Burial History ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Southeastern Part ◽  
Middle Ordovician ◽  
Oil Generation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anticosti Island ◽  
Depth Of Burial

Carbonate platform sequences of Anticosti Island and the Mingan Archipelago are Early Ordovician to Early Silurian in age. With the exception of the Macasty Formation, the sequences are impoverished in dispersed organic matter, which is chiefly composed of zooclasts. Zooclast reflectances suggest that the Upper Ordovician and Silurian sequences outcropping on Anticosti Island are entirely in the oil window but that the Lower to Middle Ordovician beds of the Mingan Archipelago and their stratigraphic equivalents in the subsurface of most of Anticosti Island belong to the condensate zone. Only the deeper sequences of the southwestern sector of Anticosti Island are in the diagenetic dry-gas zone. The maximum depth of burial of sequences below now-eroded Silurian to Devonian strata increases from 2.3 km on southwestern Anticosti Island to 4.5 km in the Mingan Archipelago. A late upwarp of the Precambrian basement likely allowed deeper erosion of the Paleozoic strata in the vicinity of the Mingan Archipelago than on Anticosti Island. Differential erosion resulted in a southwestern tilting of equal maturation surfaces. The Macasty Formation, the only source rock of the basin (total organic carbon generally > 3.5%, shows a wide range of thermal maturation levels (potential oil window to diagenetic dry gas). It can be inferred from the burial history of Anticosti Island sequences that oil generation began later but continued for a longer period of geologic time in the northeastern part than in the southeastern part of the island. Oil generation was entirely pre-Acadian in the southern and western parts of Anticosti Island, but pre- and post-Acadian in the northern and eastern parts.

Upper Ordovician ostracods from the Cautley district, northern England: Baltic and Laurentian affinities

2001 ◽  
Vol 138 (5) ◽  
pp. 589-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK WILLIAMS ◽  
PHILIP STONE ◽  
DAVID J. SIVETER ◽  
PAULINE TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Significant Extent ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Northern Germany ◽  
Iapetus Ocean ◽  
Windermere Supergroup ◽  
Distributional Patterns ◽  
Anticosti Island ◽  
The Baltic

The Cautley Mudstone Formation and Cystoid Limestone Member of the Ashgill Formation (Windermere Supergroup; Ashgill Series), from the Cautley district of northern England, has yielded an ostracod fauna of more than 30 species. Many of these have short ranges, permitting recognition of stratigraphically successive Pusgillian–lower Cautleyan, middle–upper Cautleyan, and Rawtheyan ostracod faunas. Several species are also known from the upper Ordovician of North America (Anticosti Island), Scotland (Girvan district) and the Baltic region (Estonia, glacial erratic boulders of northern Germany), providing evidence to correlate upper Ordovician successions in these areas. The ostracods include abundant podocopes, at some horizons accounting for more than 80% of the fauna. Binodicopes are also common, but palaeocopes are rare. Assemblages are typical of a clastic dominated open marine shelf setting. Diversity at most horizons is low (c. 3–5 species), but reaches a peak of between 13–14 species in middle Cautleyan horizons. Lower diversity at Pusgillian and Rawtheyan horizons coincides with the encroachment of deeper marine-shelf facies which were probably hostile to Ordovician benthonic ostracods. Some of the ostracods (particularly Aechmina) have distributions suggesting tolerance of a range of mid- to deep shelf benthonic palaeoenvironments, but none were pelagic. During Ashgill times the Cautley district (part of palaeocontinental Avalonia) was replete with ostracod genera and species which also occur in the Baltic region (palaeocontinental Baltica; more than 90% generic similarity) and to a lesser, but nonetheless significant extent in North America and Scotland (parts of palaeocontinental Laurentia). Such trans-Tornquist Sea and Iapetus Ocean distributional patterns add to previous ostracod data that support models which show palaeogeographical proximity of Avalonia and Baltica, and Avalonia and Laurentia, by Ashgill times. The widely cited observation, that trans-Iapetus ostracod faunas remained strictly provincial until the mid-or late Silurian, cannot be sustained.

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