Vaureal Formation Cephalopods, Anticosti Island (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (49.8° N, 63.5° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 40.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Vaureal Formation, Late/Upper Ordovician (458.4 - 443.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Miller, W. Youngquist, and C. Collinson. 1954. Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island. Geological Society of America Memoir 62:1-234 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24173: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 01.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
Actinoceras sp.
Actinoceras sp. Bronn 1837
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Ephippiorthoceras sp.
Ephippiorthoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
Spyroceras sp.
Spyroceras sp. Hyatt 1884
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Diestoceras sp.
Diestoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Multiceratoidea - Apsidoceratidae
Charactoceras sp.
Charactoceras sp. Foerste 1924