Pillage Bay, Mingan Islands (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (50.3° N, 64.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 51.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Romaine Formation, Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: W. H. Twenhofel. 1938. Geology and paleontology of the Mingan Islands, Quebec. Geological Society of America Special Paper 11:1-123 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56519: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Raphistomina pillagenensis n. sp. Twenhofel 1938 snail
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites romainensis n. sp. Twenhofel 1938 snail
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Eopteriidae
"Conocardium blumenbachium n. sp." = Euchasma blumenbachi
"Conocardium blumenbachium n. sp." = Euchasma blumenbachi Billings 1859