Lac Deschênes at Aylmer, Aylmer Sandstone (Ordovician of Canada)
Also known as Lake Deschenes
Where: Quebec, Canada (45.4° N, 75.8° W: paleocoordinates 26.5° S, 55.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Chazy Group, 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. 1905. The fauna of the Chazy Limestone. The American Journal of Science 20:353-382 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172191: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 29.07.2015
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Bivalvia | |
Modiolopsis sowteri Raymond 1905 clam |