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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Paper focuses on trilobites only, but occassionally includes a few other taxa which are included here.
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Trilobita | |
Hemiarges sp. Gürich 1901 trilobite | |
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite | |
Stenopareia spp. Holm 1886 trilobite | |
"Tretaspis granulata" = Nankinolithus granulatus Wahlenberg 1818 trilobite | |
Lonchodomas longirostris trilobite | |
Opsimasaphus sp. Kielan 1960 trilobite | |
Symphysops spinifera, Symphysops "sp. b", Cyclopyge "sp. b", "Heterocyclopyge insolens" = Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) insolens, "Heterocyclopyge cf. kindlei" = Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) kindlei
Symphysops spinifera trilobite
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 | |
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
Diacalymene consimilis Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite | |
Calyptaulax glabella Cooper 1930 trilobite |