Where: Quebec, Canada (48.5° N, 64.2° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° S, 38.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: unit 5 Member (White Head Formation), Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)
• The White Head Formation is divided into 9 numbered units. This collection is from unit 5, with unit 1 being the base of the formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, calcareous mudstone and lithified, silty, 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 12146: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 10.10.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
? Hindella sp. Davidson 1882 | |
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Hirnantia sagittifera, "Kinnella kielanae" = Kinnella medlicotti
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Plectothyrella sp. n. sp. Temple 1965 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Eostropheodonta siluriana" = Eostropheodonta hirnantensis
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