north point of Quin Island, Mingan Islands (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (50.2° N, 63.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 51.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1942. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, Part I: Nautilicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 37:1-157 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99216: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 02.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Tarphycerida - Tarphyceratidae
Tarphyceras apollo Billings 1861