White Head Fm, Perce, Ashgill, 77F8 - 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)

• The White Head Formation is divided into 9 numbered units. This collection is from unit 2, one above the base of the formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, argillaceous sandstone and lithified, sandy shale

• Grey, greenish-weathering very argillaceous medium sandstone to finely sandy shale, with occasional thin beds of brownish micrite, calcarenite, and fine calcareous sandstone.

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 11707: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 31.08.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
"Catazyga carteri" = Catazyga cartieri
"Catazyga carteri" = Catazyga cartieri Cooper and Kindle 1936