Where: Quebec, Canada (48.8° N, 64.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.6° S, 39.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: White Head Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• The White Head Formation is divided into 9 numbered units. This collection is from unit 2, one above the base of the formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, argillaceous sandstone and lithified, sandy shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. M. Sheehan and P.J. Lesperance. 1981. Brachiopods from the White Head Formation (Late Ordovician-Early Silurian) of the Perce region, Quebec, Canada. IUGS Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group, Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspe, Quebec, 1981 2:1-321 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/Z. Krug]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11706: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 31.08.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Strophomenata | |
? Sowerbyella gigantea Schuchert and Cooper 1930 | |
? Holtedahlina sp. Foerste 1924
Strophomena "n. sp." Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 | |
Rafinesquina percensis Cooper and Kindle 1936
Leptaena spp. Dalman 1828 | |
Brachyprion sp. Shaler 1865 | |
"Fardenia castatula" = Fardenia costatula
"Fardenia castatula" = Fardenia costatula Cooper and Kindle 1936 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Catazyga carteri" = Catazyga cartieri
"Catazyga carteri" = Catazyga cartieri Cooper and Kindle 1936 | |
Dalmanella "sp. B" Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Plectorthis cf. magna Cooper and Kindle 1936 |