GSC O-106028, Grand-Île (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (45.3° N, 74.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 61.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oepikodus communis conodont zone, Ogdensburg Member (Beauharnois Formation), Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)

• Strigigenalis caudata Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, dolomitic limestone and lithified packstone

• Dolomitic limestone and irregular to lenticular (2-20 cm) beds of bioclasitc packstone and grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: S. Desbiens, T. E. Bolton, and A.D. McCracken. 1996. Fauna of the lower Beauharnois Formation (Beekmantown Group, Lower Ordovician), Grand île, Quebec. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33(8):1132-1153 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 50062: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Hystricurus cf. deflectus
Hystricurus cf. deflectus Heller 1954 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
"Goniotelina subrectus" = Acidiphorus, Strigigenalis caudata, "Jeffersonia sp." = Jeffersonia, "? Bathyurina sp." = Jeffersonia, Jeffersonia cf. timon
"Goniotelina subrectus" = Acidiphorus trilobite
Strigigenalis caudata Billings 1865 trilobite
"Jeffersonia sp." = Jeffersonia Poulson 1927 trilobite
"? Bathyurina sp." = Jeffersonia Poulson 1927 trilobite
Jeffersonia cf. timon Billings 1865 trilobite
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
? Ischyrotoma sp.
? Ischyrotoma sp. Raymond 1925 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isoteloides sp., Isoteloides canalis
Isoteloides sp. Raymond 1910 trilobite
Isoteloides canalis Whitfield 1886 trilobite
Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
Ribeiria calcifera
Ribeiria calcifera Billings 1865
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma artemesia
Hormotoma artemesia Billings 1865 snail
 Euomphalina - Raphistomatidae
Ceratopea canadensis
Ceratopea canadensis Billings 1865 snail
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
""Maclurites" affinis" = Teiichispira affinis
""Maclurites" affinis" = Teiichispira affinis Billings 1865 snail
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
"Barnesella sp." = Lecanospira
"Barnesella sp." = Lecanospira Butts 1926 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Finkelnburgiidae
Finkelnburgia armanda, Finkelnburgia cullisoni
Finkelnburgia cullisoni Ulrich and Cooper 1936