Aylmer, Aylmer Sandstone (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (45.4° N, 75.8° W: paleocoordinates 26.5° S, 55.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• "Aylmer sandstone (upper Chazy) about sixty feet above the high water mark of Lake Descenes", in Raymond (1916)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. E. Raymond. 1916. The Pelecypoda of the Chazy Formation. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 328:325-343 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171789: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 20.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sowteri Raymond 1905 clam
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
"Whitella canadensis" = Sowteria canadensis1
"Whitella canadensis" = Sowteria canadensis1 Raymond 1905 clam
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
"Lingula lyelli" = Ectenoglossa lyelli3
"Lingula lyelli" = Ectenoglossa lyelli3 Billings 1859
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Camarotoechia orientalis" = Rostricellula orientalis3, "Camarotoechia cf. plena" = Rostricellula plena2
"Camarotoechia orientalis" = Rostricellula orientalis3 Billings 1859
"Camarotoechia cf. plena" = Rostricellula plena2 Hall 1847
Camarotoechia cf. Camarotoechia plena
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
"Hebertella imperator" = Mimella imperator3
"Hebertella imperator" = Mimella imperator3 Billings 1859