East of Phillipsburg (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (45.0° N, 73.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.0° S, 60.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Luke Hill Limestone Formation, Cassinian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• Now lumped with Hastings Creek Formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, original aragonite, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the GSC, USNM

Primary reference: J. Pojeta and B. Runnegar. 1976. The paleontology of rostroconch mollusks and the early history of the phylum Mollusca. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 968:1-88 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101743: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Eopteriidae
Euchasma blumenbachi Billings 1859