Where: Quebec, Canada (50.2° N, 63.9° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° S, 55.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: upper Member (Romaine Formation), Ibexian (487.5 - 470.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithology not reported

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 111459: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 24.06.2011

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