R14b (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Vermont (44.9° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.6° S, 56.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chazy Group, Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• Probably carbonate.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the NYSM

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: F.C. Shaw. 1968. Early Middle Ordovician (Chazy) trilobites of New York. New York State Museum and Science Service Memoir 17:1-163 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103286: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 25.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Eobronteus sp. Reed 1928 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Bumastus (Bumastoides) aplatus Raymond 1925 trilobite
Thaleops longispina Shaw 1968 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Apianurus narrawayi Raymond 1910 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax annulata Raymond 1905 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurinella latipyga Shaw 1968 trilobite
"Heliomeroides akocephala" = Heliomeroides teres Evitt 1951 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pliomerops canadensis Billings 1859 trilobite
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Dimeropyge clintonensis Shaw 1968 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides canadensis Billings 1865 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
Amphilichas minganensis Billings 1865 trilobite