ANSE
À
PIERRE-LOISELLE
A nice section of Silurian
fossiliferous carbonates occurs along a VIA railroad cut just east of Rt. 132
at Anse à Pierre-Loiselle in the southeastern Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec
Province, southeastern Canada. The Anse à
Pierre-Loiselle area is just northeast of Bouleau Point, east of Gascons, on
the northern side of Chaleurs Bay near Port Daniel.
This cut exposes the upper
member of the La Vieille Formation (Wenlockian, mid-Silurian).
Collecting resulted in fantastic specimens of strophomenid brachiopods,
pentamerid brachiopods (including huge specimens of Costistricklandia lirata),
gastropods, favositid corals, heliolitid corals, syringoporid corals, halysitid
corals, auloporid corals, stromatoporoids, etc.
The pic below shows a
gorgeous, huge colonial coral mass in the upper portions of the railroad cut.
