Where: Québec, Canada (49.0° N, 64.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.7° S, 37.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cote de la Surprise Member (White Head Formation), Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)
• Sampled from a single horizon in middle of member.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, brown, green, calcareous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. J. Lespérance. 1988. Percé, Québec, Canada. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 43:239-245 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81280: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 16.06.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Cryptolithus portageensis trilobite | |
"Mucronaspis mucronata" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus, Mucronaspis olini
"Mucronaspis mucronata" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus Brongniart 1822 trilobite
Mucronaspis olini Temple 1952 trilobite | |
Brongniartella robusta Lespérance 1968 trilobite | |
Lingulata | |
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Strophomenata | |
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Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Pterobranchia | |
"Climacograptus normalis" = Normalograptus normalis
"Climacograptus normalis" = Normalograptus normalis Lapworth 1877 graptolite | |
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite | |
Demospongiae | |
Astylospongia praemorsa Goldfuss 1826 demosponge |