Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-t27h7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-25T14:51:29.472Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Halysitid and auloporid tabulate corals from the Gascons and West Point Formations (Silurian), Gaspé, Québec, Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Graham A. Young ,
Dong-Jin Lee  and
James P. A. Noble
Graham A. Young
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
Dong-Jin Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Andong National University, Andong 760-749, Korea
James P. A. Noble
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The uppermost Lower Silurian and Upper Silurian Gascons and West Point Formations of the southern Gaspé Peninsula were deposited under a broad range of environmental conditions from deep offshore-shelf to reef facies. Halysitid and auloporid tabulate corals occur in a number of facies and show a high degree of endemism.

Two species of Halysitidae and three species of Auloporida are found in these formations. Both halysitids have been previously described from this region. The auloporids include the new species Syringopora minuta and another species that may represent the first known Silurian occurrence of the fletcheriellid genus Pseudofletcheria. A neotype for the halysitid Cystihalysites amplitubulatus (Lambe) is proposed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 65 , Issue 5 , September 1991 , pp. 715 - 726
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bolton, T. E. 1960. Catalogue of type invertebrate fossils of the Geological Survey of Canada, Vol. 1. Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, 215 p.Google Scholar
Bolton, T. E. 1981a. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian Anthozoa of Anticosti Island, Québec. Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician–Silurian Boundary Working Group. Field Meeting Anticosti-Gaspé. Vol. II: Stratigraphy and Paleontology, p. 107–135.Google Scholar
Bolton, T. E. 1981b. Early Silurian Anthozoa of Chaleurs Group, Port Daniel–Black Cape region, Gaspé Peninsula. Québec. Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician–Silurian Boundary Working Group. Field Meeting Anticosti-Gaspé. Vol. II: Stratigraphy and Paleontology, p. 299–314.Google Scholar
Bourque, P.-A. 1979. Facies of the Silurian West Point reef complex, Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspésie, Québec. Geological Association of Canada, Annual Meeting, Québec City, Guidebook to Field Trip B-2, 29 p.Google Scholar
Bourque, P.-A. 1984. Port-Daniel, 1984. Field Guidebook, l'Université Laval, Québec, P.Q., 60 p.Google Scholar
Bourque, P.-A., Amyot, G., Desrochers, A., Gignac, H., Gosselin, C., Lachambre, G., and Laliberté, J.-Y. 1986. Silurian and Lower Devonian reef and carbonate complexes of the Gaspé basin, Québec—a summary. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, 34:452–489.Google Scholar
Bourque, P.-A., and Lachambre, G. 1980. Stratigraphie du Silurien et du Dévonien basal du sud de la Gaspésie, Québec. Quebec Ministry of Energy and Resources, ES-30, 123 p.Google Scholar
Buehler, E. J. 1955. The morphology and taxonomy of the Halysitidae. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 8, 79 p.Google Scholar
Chi, Y.-S. 1933. Lower Carboniferous syringoporas of China. Palaeontologica Sinica, ser. B, 12:1–48.Google Scholar
Dixon, O. A. 1974. Late Ordovician Propora (Coelenterata: Heliolitidae) from Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 48:568–585.Google Scholar
Dixon, O. A. 1979. Late Silurian plasmoporid and stelliporellid corals (Heliolitidae) from the Canadian Arctic. Journal of Paleontology, 53:642–656.Google Scholar
Ehrenberg, C. G. 1834. Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des Rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. Köngliga Akademie der Wissenschaft, physik.-mathematisch, Abhandlingun (1832):225–380[not seen by authors].Google Scholar
Fischer von Waldheim, G. 1813. Zoognosia tabulis synopticis illustrata … Editio tertia 1, 465p. (Moscow).Google Scholar
Fischer von Waldheim, G. 1828. Notice sur les polypiers tubipores fossiles. Programme pour la séance publique de la Societé Imperiale des Naturalistes, p. 9–23(Moscow).Google Scholar
Frech, F. 1897. Referat, J. Wentzel: Zur Kenntniss der Zoantharia tabulata. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie, und Paläontologie, 1897(pt.2):212–214[not seen by authors].Google Scholar
Frey, H., and Leuckart, C. G. F. R. 1847. Beiträge zur Kenntniss wirbelloser Thiere mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna des Norddeutschen Meeres. Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn (Braunschweig), 170 p. [not seen by authors].Google Scholar
Fromentel, E. de. 1861. Introduction à l'Etude des Polypiers Fossiles. F. Savy, Paris. 357p. [not seen by authors].Google Scholar
Goldfuss, G. A. 1826. Petrefacta Germaniae. Dusseldorf, 1(1):1–76.Google Scholar
Hamada, T. 1957. On the classification of the Halysitidae, 1. University of Tokyo, Journal of the Faculty of Science, Section 2, 10:395–405.Google Scholar
Hill, D. 1981. Rugosa and Tabulata. In Teichert, C. (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part F, Coelenterata, Supplement 1. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 762 p.Google Scholar
Ivanov, A. N. 1950. Descriptions, p. 3–32. In Ivanov, A. N. and Myagkova, E. I., Predelitel fauny ordovika zapadnogo sklona srednego Urala. Akademiya Nauk SSR, Uralskii Filial, Gorno-Geologicheskii Institut, Trudy, 18.Google Scholar
Kershaw, S. 1987. Stromatoporoid–coral intergrowths in a Silurian biostrome. Lethaia, 20:371–380.Google Scholar
Lambe, L. M. 1899. A revision of the genera and species of Canadian Paleozoic corals. The Madreporaria Perforata and the Alcyonaria. Geological Survey of Canada, Contributions to Canadian Paleontology, 4(1):1–96.Google Scholar
Laub, R. S. 1979. The corals of the Brassfield Formation (mid-Llandovery; Lower Silurian) in the Cincinnati Arch region. Bulletins of American Paleontology, 75(305), 432 p.Google Scholar
Lee, D.-J., and Noble, J. P. A. 1988a. Heliolitid corals of the Upper Silurian West Point Formation, Gaspé, Québec. Journal of Paleontology, 62:855–865.Google Scholar
Lee, D.-J., and Noble, J. P. A. 1988b. Tabulate coral distribution—Upper Silurian West Point Reef Complex, Gaspé, Québec. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, 36:379–387.Google Scholar
Baoyu, Lin, Yongyi, Tchi, Chuntai, Jin, Yaoxi, Li, and Youyin, Yan. 1988. Monograph of Palaeozoic Corals Tabulatomorphic Corals, Vol. 1 (Beijing), 454 p.Google Scholar
Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis synonymis, locis. 12th ed., Vol. 1, Pt. 2, p. 533–1327, Laurentius Salvius (Holmiae) [not seen by authors].Google Scholar
McIlreath, I. A., and James, N. P. 1984. Carbonate slopes, p. 245–257. In Walker, R. G. (ed.), Facies Models. Second Edition, Geoscience Canada, Reprint Series, 1.Google Scholar
Milne-Edwards, H., and Haime, J. 1849. Mémoire sur les polypiers appartenant aux groupes naturels des Zoanthaires perforés et des Zoanthaires tabulés. Academie des Sciences de Paris, Comptes Rendus, 29:257–263.Google Scholar
Milne-Edwards, H., and Haime, J. 1850. A monograph of the British fossil corals. First part: introduction. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society, London, 71 p.Google Scholar
Mistiaen, B. 1984. Comments on the caunopore tubes: stratigraphic distribution and microstructure. Palaeontographica Americana, 54:501–508.Google Scholar
Norford, B. S. 1962a. The Silurian fauna of the Sandpile Group of northern British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 78, 51 p.Google Scholar
Norford, B. S. 1962b. Illustrations of Canadian fossils: Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian of the western Cordillera. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 62-14, 25 p.Google Scholar
Northrop, S. A. 1939. Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Port Daniel–Black Cape region, Gaspé. Geological Society of America Special Paper 21, 302 p.Google Scholar
Phillips, J. 1841. Figures and descriptions of the Palaeozoic fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset. Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 231 p.Google Scholar
Pickerill, R. K., Roulston, B. V., and Noble, J. P. A. 1977. Trace fossils from the Silurian Chaleurs Group of southeastern Gaspé Peninsula. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 14:239–249.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shrock, R. R., and Twenhofel, W. H. 1939. Silurian fossils from northern Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology, 13:241–266.Google Scholar
Sokolov, B. S. 1947. Novye syringoporidy Taymyra. Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Byulletin (Geologiya), 22:19–28[not seen by authors].Google Scholar
Sokolov, B. S. 1965. O sisteme korallov Tabulata, p. 5–9. In Sokolov, B. S. and Dubatolov, V. N. (eds.), Tabulyatomorfnye korally ordovika i Silura SSSR, Trudy 1, Vsesoyuznogo simpoziuma po izucheniyu iskopaemykh korallov. Nauka, Moscow, Pt. 1.Google Scholar
Stasinska, A. 1967. Tabulata from Norway, Sweden, and from the erratic boulders of Poland. Palaeontologia Polonica, 18:1–112.Google Scholar
Stasinska, A. 1974. Silurian Tabulata from north-east Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 19:501–517.Google Scholar
Stumm, E. C. 1962. Silurian corals from the Moose River Synclinorium, Maine. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 430-A:1–9.Google Scholar
Stumm, E. C. 1964. Silurian and Devonian corals of the Falls of the Ohio. Geological Society of America Memoir 93, 184 p.Google Scholar
Tchernyshev, B. B. 1941. O nekotorykh verkhne-siluriyskikh korallakh vostochnogo Verkhoyanya. Vsesoyuznogo Arktichi Instituty, Trudy, 158(5):65–74[not seen by authors].Google Scholar
Yongyi, Tchi. 1976. Tabulata, p. 101–129. In Atlas of Paleontology of the North China Region, Inner Mongolia Volume. Research Institute of Geological Science Northeast, Geological Bureau of Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, Geological Press, Peking.Google Scholar
Tchudinova, I. I. 1971. Vnutrividovaya izmiencivost siluriyskikh Siringopor, p. 62–91. In Dubatolov, V. N. (ed.), Tabulyaty i geliolitoidei paleozoya SSSR, Trudy 2, Vsesoyuznogo simpoziuma po izucheniya iskopaemykh korallov SSSR, no. 1. Nauka, Moscow.Google Scholar
Termier, H., and Termier, G. 1945. Sur la présence de spicules chez quelques Alcyonaires Viseens du Maroc. Societé Géologique France, Comptes Rendus, Séances, Ser. 5, 15:70–72.Google Scholar
Twenhofel, W. H. 1928. Geology of Anticosti Island faunas. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 154, 481 p.Google Scholar
Wright, A. J., and Bourque, P.-A. 1980. Halysitid corals from Silurian and Devonian rocks of Québec. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 17:788–796.Google Scholar
Young, G. A., and Noble, J. P. A. 1987a. The Llandovery–Wenlock Syringoporidae from New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 61:268–283.Google Scholar
Young, G. A., and Noble, J. P. A. 1987b. The Llandovery–Wenlock Halysitidae from New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 61:1125–1147.Google Scholar
Young, G. A., and Noble, J. P. A. 1989. Variation and growth of a syringoporid symbiont species in stromatoporoids from the Silurian of eastern Canada. Fossil Cnidaria 5, Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Memoir 8:91–98.Google Scholar
Young, G. A., and Noble, J. P. A. 1990a. Silurian Heliolitidae (Anthozoa, Tabulata) from the Chaleurs Bay region, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 64:44–60.Google Scholar
Young, G. A., and Noble, J. P. A. 1990b. Silurian Proporidae and Plasmoporidae (Anthozoa, Tabulata) from the Chaleurs Bay region, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 64:184–199.Google Scholar
Young, G. A., and Noble, J. P. A. 1990c. Silurian tabulate coral biostratigraphy and biofacies of northern New Brunswick and the southern Gaspé Peninsula. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 27:1143–1158.Google Scholar
Young, G. A., and Scrutton, C. T.In press. Growth form in Silurian heliolitid corals: the significance of genetics and environment. Paleobiology.Google Scholar