GSC 95882 (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (50.2° N, 63.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° S, 46.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bathyurus granulosus/Ceraurinella nahanniensis trilobite zone, middle 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: lithology not reported

• see also Shaw 1980

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T.E. Bolton in 1978; reposited in the GSC

• Paper states that: "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." GSC locality numbers all likely to have been collected by Bolton and others in 1978 (Shaw collections are listed separately).

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 111449: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 24.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus bayfieldi Billings 1859 trilobite