Priest's Road. Remipyga fauna (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as White Head Fm, Perce, Quebec, low or mid Ashgill, Remipyga fauna- Patzkowsky

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.5° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 39.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Grande Coupe Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Fauna was collected from thin beds of red weathering crinoidal limestones, thick unweathered beds of crinoidal limestone, and finely crystalline 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 13131: 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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unclassified
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Tretadella sp.
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Aparchitidae
cf. Macronotella sp.
cf. Macronotella sp. Ulrich 1894 ostracod
Trilobita
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion sp.
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
"Proetidella subornatus" = Decoroproetus
"Proetidella subornatus" = Decoroproetus trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Warburgella bella" = Cyphoproetus bellus
"Warburgella bella" = Cyphoproetus bellus Cooper and Kindle 1936 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Diacalymene aff. consimilis, Flexicalymene sp.
Diacalymene aff. consimilis Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinurus spp.
Encrinurus spp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Sphaerocoryphe sp., Sphaerexochus sp., "Remipyga icarus" = Ceraurinus, "Ceraurinella elongatus" = Ceraurinus icarus, Ceraurinella "sp. b", Ceraurus "sp. a"
Sphaerocoryphe sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
Sphaerexochus sp. Beyrich 1845 trilobite
"Remipyga icarus" = Ceraurinus trilobite
"Ceraurinella elongatus" = Ceraurinus icarus Billings 1860 trilobite
Ceraurinella "sp. b" Cooper 1953 trilobite
Ceraurus "sp. a" Green 1832 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Achatella sp., Calyptaulax glabella
Achatella sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
Calyptaulax glabella Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Orphanaspis sp., Primaspis sp.
Orphanaspis sp. Prantl and Pribyl 1949 trilobite
Primaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Stenopareia spp.
Stenopareia spp. Holm 1886 trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Symphysops sp., Cyclopyge vigilans, "Heterocyclopyge kindlei" = Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) kindlei, "Heterocyclopyge insolens" = Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) insolens
Symphysops sp. Raymond 1925 trilobite
Cyclopyge vigilans Cooper and Kindle 1936 trilobite
"Heterocyclopyge kindlei" = Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) kindlei Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
"Heterocyclopyge insolens" = Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) insolens Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides striatus
Remopleurides striatus Cooper and Kindle 1936 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus "sp. b"
Isotelus "sp. b" Dekay 1824 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Tretaspis sp.
Tretaspis sp. M'Coy 1849 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Lonchodomas sp.
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite