Where: Quebec, Canada (45.5° N, 73.3° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 48.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amplexograptus manitoulinensis graptolite zone, Sainte-Monique Member (Nicolet River Formation), Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• Was Lorraine Proteus Beds. Now Chambly beds of Nicolet River Formation, Sainte-Monique Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

• Foerste (1914) also reports:

•Pholidops subtruncata Hall

•Strophomena planumbona

•Rafinesquina mucronata, sp. nov.

•Catazyga erratica, Hall

•Caritodens demissa, Conrad

•Colpomya faba pusilla, var. nov

•Pholadomorpha chambliensis, sp. nov

•Modiolopsis concentrica, Hall and Whitfield

•Modiolopsis postplicata, sp. nov

•Orthodesma approximatum, sp. nov.

•Cymatonota pholadis, Conrad

•Psiloconcha sinuata borealis, yar. nay.

•Whitella complanata, sp. nov.

•Clidophorus praevolutus, sp. nov.

•Ctenodonta lorrainensis, sp. nov.

•Lyrodesma poststriatum, (Emmons) Hall

•Rhytimya oehana, Ulrich

•Proetus chambliensis, sp. nov.

Primary reference: A. F. Foerste. 1914. Notes on the Lorraine faunas of New York and the Province of Quebec. Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University 17(1):247-328 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155174: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 30.03.2014, edited by Susan Scholze

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