Grenville, Ottawa Valley, Aylmer Fm. (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (45.6° N, 74.6° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 55.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Aylmer Formation, Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• "The section at Grenville is given on page 123 of the Geology of Canada, 1863.", in Raymond (1906)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. E. Raymond. 1906. The Chazy Formation and its fauna. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 3(4):498-596 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172355: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 05.08.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Leperditellocopida - Primitiidae
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia canadensis Jones 1858 ostracod
 Leperditicopida - Isochilinidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira perangulata Hall 1847 snail
 Euomphalina - Raphistomatidae
"Pleurotomaria pauper" = Raphistoma pauper
"Pleurotomaria pauper" = Raphistoma pauper Billings 1859 snail
 Euomphalina - Helicotomidae
Helicotoma umbilicata Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Camarotoechia plena" = Rostricellula plena
"Camarotoechia plena" = Rostricellula plena Hall 1847