Shaw collection N-5 (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (50.2° N, 63.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° S, 46.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bathyurus granulosus/Ceraurinella nahanniensis trilobite zone, lower Member (Mingan Formation), Whiterockian (471.8 - 457.5 Ma)

• Bathyurus granulosus (nearshore biofacies) and Ceraurinella nahanniensis (open shelf biofacies) biozones are partially concurrent (Tremblay and Westrop 1991).

Environment/lithology: lithified grainstone

• offshore bar, Shaw 1980
• see Shaw 1980

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. C. Shaw in the 1960s-70s; reposited in the GSC

• "Field work for the present report was undertaken in 1966, 1971, and 1972 by F. C. Shaw and in 1978 by T. E. Bolton, M. J. Copeland, and G. S. Nowlan. Additional material was supplied by A. A. Petryk, A. Desrochers, and S. Desbiens."

Primary reference: F. C. Shaw and T. E. Bolton. 2011. Ordovician trilobites from the Romaine and Mingan Formations (Ibexian-Late Whiterockian), Mingan Islands, Quebec. Journal of Paleontology 85(3):406-441 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111364: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 23.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurinella pompilia Billings 1865 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
? Eobronteus sp. Reed 1928 trilobite
Failleana limbata Raymond 1910 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
Hibbertia sp. Jones and Woodward 1899 trilobite