PBDB Collection

Point Levis (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (46.8° N, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° S, 58.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)

• in a "limestone boulder believed to be Upper Ozarkian"

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1944. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary. Geological Society of America Special Paper 58:1-226 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101017: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 15.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
Ellesmerocerida - Protocycloceratidae	Endocycloceras wilsonae, Protocycloceras levisense Endocycloceras wilsonae Ulrich et al. 1944 Protocycloceras levisense Ulrich et al. 1944
Ellesmerocerida - Rudolfoceratidae	Rudolfoceras autolycus, Rudolfoceras subarcuatum, Rudolfoceras kindlei, "Rudolfoceras levisense" = Ectocycloceras levisense Rudolfoceras autolycus Billings 1862 Rudolfoceras subarcuatum Ulrich et al. 1944 Rudolfoceras kindlei Ulrich et al. 1944 "Rudolfoceras levisense" = Ectocycloceras levisense Ulrich et al. 1944
Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae	Clarkoceras levisense², Clarkoceras lawrencense², Levisoceras mercurius², Levisoceras belli², Bassleroceras alethes¹, Dyscritoceras dictys, Dyscritoceras metellus, Eremoceras syphax², Diaphoroceras belli, Bridgeoceras subannulatum² Clarkoceras levisense² Ulrich et al. 1943 Clarkoceras lawrencense² Ulrich et al. 1943 Levisoceras mercurius² Billings 1865 Levisoceras belli² Ulrich et al. 1943 Bassleroceras alethes¹ Billings 1865 Dyscritoceras dictys Billings 1865 Dyscritoceras metellus Billings 1865 Eremoceras syphax² Billings 1865 Diaphoroceras belli Ulrich et al. 1944 Bridgeoceras subannulatum² Ulrich et al. 1943
Multiceratoidea - Bassleroceratidae	Lawrenceoceras collinsi, Onychoceras surgens Lawrenceoceras collinsi Ulrich et al. 1944 Onychoceras surgens Barrande 1870

¹Kröger and Landing 2008; ²Ulrich et al. 1943