White Head Formation, Cap Blanc lighthouse, Perce, Quebec (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.5° N, 64.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 41.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: White Head Formation, Edenian to Edenian (451.0 - 443.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Thinbedded limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper and C.H. Kindle. 1936. New brachiopods and trilobites from the Ordovician of Perce, Quebec. Journal of Paleontology 10(5):348-372 [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37792: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 24.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Cliftonia costata
Cliftonia (Oxoplecia) costata
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Cyclospiridae
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
"Plectatrypa gaspeensis" = Spirigerina (Eospirigerina) gaspeensis
"Plectatrypa gaspeensis" = Spirigerina (Eospirigerina) gaspeensis Schuchert and Cooper 1930
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
"Illaenus perceensis" = Stenopareia perceensis
"Illaenus perceensis" = Stenopareia perceensis Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Calymene consimilis" = Diacalymene consimilis
"Calymene consimilis" = Diacalymene consimilis Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Leonaspis parva trilobite