White Head Fm, Perce, S-63-F12-Patzkowsky (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Perce

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.6° N, 64.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 23.6° S, 84.6° W (Wright 2013)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: White Head Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, gray limestone and lithified, argillaceous, silty limestone

• Lithologic description is for section in which Llandovery beds may be found, not for the Llandovery beds themselves.
• Smooth, lithographic to sublithographic, brown to dark-brownish-gray (micritic) limestone beds 1-6 in. thick with thinner interbeds of gray, shaly or silty limestone, or calcareous shale. Contacts between alternating pure and argillaceous limestone beds are sharply defined. Locally, beds as much as 8 in. thick consist of coarse, massive, crinoidal limestone. Also local beds of conglomerate with a pink, crinoidal matrix.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. G. Ayrton, W.B.N. Berry, A.J. Boucot, J. Lajoie, P.J. Lesperance, L. Pavlides, and W.B. Skidmore. 1969. Lower Llandovery of the Northern Appalachians and Adjacent Regions. Geological Society of America Bulletin 80:459-484 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11418: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 15.08.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
? Leonaspis parva
 Ptychopariida -
"Harpida indet." = Harpina
"Harpida indet." = Harpina Whittington 1959 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Bolbineossia cf. billingsi