It preserves fossils dating back to the early Silurian period.

[1] It overlies the Ordovician-Silurian boundary on Anticosti Island, marking a major oceanic and climatic changeover from the glacial sea-level lowstand and interglacial highstand cycles of the underlying Ellis Bay Formation to the more stable warming climate of the earliest Silurian, and extends approximately parallel to an ancient coastline some 200 km east to west.

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