Road outcrops along route 169, 1.6 km west of Desbiens (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.4° N, 72.1° W: paleocoordinates 24.1° S, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Unit 1 Member (Shipshaw Formation), Edenian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale and wackestone

• This unit is a succession of shale and interbedded wackestone, packstone, and grainstone that is up to 15 m in thickness

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: P. J. Lespérance and D. Desbiens. 1995. Selected Ordovician trilobites from the Lake St. John District of Quebec and their bearing on systematics. Paleontological Society Memoir 42:1-19 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163864: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
"Walencrinuroides gelaisi" = Encrinuroides gelaisi, Erratencrinurus spicatus
"Walencrinuroides gelaisi" = Encrinuroides gelaisi Lespérance and Desbiens 1995 trilobite
Walencrinuroides s.l. gelaisi
Erratencrinurus spicatus Tripp 1974 trilobite
Erratencrinurus s.l. spicatus
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurus matranseris Sinclair 1947 trilobite