Nicolet River Section, Waynesville Fm. (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (45.5° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 24.1° S, 47.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Waynesville Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. F. Foerste. 1924. Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 138(121):1-99 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173239: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 14.09.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Catazyga headi Billings 1862
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"Strophomena hecuba" = Tetraphalerella hecuba Billings 1860
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea nicolettensis Foerste 1924 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema bilix Conrad 1842 snail
Cyclonema bilix conicum
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Clathrospira subconica Hall 1847 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Lophospira beatrice" = Paupospira beatrice, "Lophospira tropidophora" = Paupospira tropidophora
"Lophospira beatrice" = Paupospira beatrice Foerste 1914 snail
"Lophospira tropidophora" = Paupospira tropidophora Meek 1873 snail
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites ornatus Conrad 1838
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Psiloconcha sinuata Ulrich 1893 clam
Psiloconcha sinuata borealis
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Pterina (Caritodens) demissa" = Pterinea demissa
"Pterina (Caritodens) demissa" = Pterinea demissa Conrad 1842 oyster
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Whitella securiformis Foerste 1914 clam