Walcott Locality 115a. Point LĂ©vis cemetary, St. Lawrence River. (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (47.0° N, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° S, 69.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lotagnostus americanus trilobite zone, Levis Formation, Sunwaptan (498.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. B. Knight. 1948. Further new Cambrian bellerophont gastropods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 111(3):1-6 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56819: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
"Loganellus logani" = Ptychoparia logani
"Loganellus logani" = Ptychoparia logani Devine 1863 trilobite
 Olenida - Loganellidae
Levisella sp. Ulrich 1930 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
"Agnostus americanus" = Lotagnostus americanus
"Agnostus americanus" = Lotagnostus americanus Billings 1860
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Tetralobulidae
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
"Chalarostrepsis praecursor n. gen. n. sp." = Strepsodiscus praecursor
"Chalarostrepsis praecursor n. gen. n. sp." = Strepsodiscus praecursor Knight 1948 snail
Tergomya
 Scenelloidea - Scenellidae
"Metoptoma venillia n. sp." = Scenella venillia
"Metoptoma venillia n. sp." = Scenella venillia Billings 1865
Probably the same locality!