White Head Fm, Perce, Quebec, low or mid Ashgill, Stenopareia fauna - Patzkowsky (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.5° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 39.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• Taken from the "Petite Coupe-Mont Joli Band."

Environment/lithology: lithified, green, argillaceous

• Greenish argillaceous limestones.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. J. Lespérance. 1968. Ordovician and Silurian trilobite faunas of the White Head Formation, Percé Region, Québec. Journal of Paleontology 42(3):811-826 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13130: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 22.01.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Paper focuses on trilobites only, but occassionally includes a few other taxa which are included here.
Trilobita
 Lichida - Lichidae
Hemiarges sp. Gürich 1901 trilobite
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Stenopareia spp. Holm 1886 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
"Tretaspis granulata" = Nankinolithus granulatus Wahlenberg 1818 trilobite
Tretaspis "ceriodes subsp. b" M'Coy 1849 trilobite
subsp. b
Tretaspis ceriodes Angelin 1854 trilobite
subsp. a
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Opsimasaphus sp. Kielan 1960 trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Symphysops "sp. b" Raymond 1925 trilobite
Cyclopyge "sp. b" Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
"Heterocyclopyge insolens" = Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) insolens Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
"Heterocyclopyge cf. kindlei" = Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) kindlei Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
Diacalymene consimilis Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax glabella Cooper 1930 trilobite