Snake Island, Lac St. Jean, Québec (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (44.3° N, 79.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 60.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ordovician (485.4 - 443.8 Ma)

• Reported from "the highest beds" in this location.

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. E. Bolton. 1988. Stromatoporoidea from the Ordovician rocks of central and eastern Canada. Contributions to Canadian paleontology, Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 379:17-45 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27236: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 23.11.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Reported by Foerste, 1916.
Protozoa
 Spumellaria -
Beatricea undulata Billings 1857 radiolarian