White Head Fm, Perce, Ashgill, 62F21 - Patzkowsky (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.8° N, 64.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.6° S, 39.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: White Head Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• White Head Fm. is divided into 9 numbered units. This collection is from unit 1, the base of the formation.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty, sandy limestone and lithified, calcareous shale

• Interbedded finely sandy to silty limestone, bioclastic calcarenite, and calcareous shale.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. M. Sheehan and P.J. Lesperance. 1981. Brachiopods from the White Head Formation (Late Ordovician-Early Silurian) of the Perce region, Quebec, Canada. IUGS Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group, Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspe, Quebec, 1981 2:1-321 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/Z. Krug]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11587: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 22.08.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.