Where: Quebec, Canada (49.7° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° S, 38.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hercochitina normalis other zone, Homard Member (Vauréal Formation), Richmondian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• Given as English Head Zone 5.
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•The limestone beds range in thickness from 2 inches to 1 foot. Seaweed impressions are extremely common on some of the limestone beds. The "track bed" is somewhere near the top of this division, as pieces from it were found in the talus slope beneath, but it was not located in place
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: blue limestone and gray, blue shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: W. H. Twenhofel. 1928. Geology of Anticosti Island. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 154(2132):1-351 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 173990: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.10.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lophophorata | |
"Cornulites richmondensis" = Costatulites richmondensis
"Cornulites richmondensis" = Costatulites richmondensis Miller 1874 | |
Strophomenata | |
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"? Leptaena nitens" = Megamyonia nitens
"? Leptaena nitens" = Megamyonia nitens Billings 1860 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Dinorthis carletona" = Dinorthis (Pionorthis) carletona
"Dinorthis carletona" = Dinorthis (Pionorthis) carletona Twenhofel 1928 | |
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki
"Dalmanella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki Miller 1875 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Ptilodictya flagella Nicholson 1875 | |
Sceptropora facula Ulrich 1888 | |
Trilobita | |
Ceraurinus icarus Billings 1860 trilobite |