Gaspé Peninsula, Cap Blanc, White Head Formation Unit 7 (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (46.9° N, 60.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° S, 31.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 7 Member (White Head Formation), Ashgill to Ashgill (449.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• "Unit" 7.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; green shale

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• Fine, green, non-calcareous shale.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. B. Skidmore and P. J. Lespérance. 1981. Gaspé Peninsula, Percé area. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 1:31-40 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24525: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 08.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Acernaspis (Acernaspis) primaeva trilobite
Acernaspis (Acernaspis) primaeva n. ssp. ?