Shaw collection C-1: Whiterockian, Canada
collected by F. C. Shaw 1960-
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Styginidae
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Failleana limbata
(Raymond 1910)
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Illaenus bayfieldi
Billings 1859
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Thaleops vindex
(Billings 1865)
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Stenopareia globosus
(Billings 1859)
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Bathyuridae
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Uromystrum minor
(Raymond 1905)
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pliomeridae
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Pliomerops canadensis
(Billings 1859)
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
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Ceraurinella pompilia
(Billings 1865)
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Isotelus harrisi
Raymond 1905
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 50.2° North, 63.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.3° South, 46.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 2-4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Whiterockian | Trilobite zone: | Bathyurus granulosus/Ceraurinella nahanniensis |
| Age range of interval: | 470.00000 - 457.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | nodular lithified wackestone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | nodular lithified grainstone | ||
| Lithology description: see also Shaw 1980 | |||
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
| Geology comments: see also Shaw 1980 | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | F. C. Shaw | Collection dates: | 1960s-70s |
| Collection method comments: "Field work for the present report was undertaken in 1966, 1971, and 1972 by F. C. Shaw and in 1978 by T. E. Bolton, M. J. Copeland, and G. S. Nowlan. Additional material was supplied by A. A. Petryk, A. Desrochers, and S. Desbiens." | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:Abundance data reported to genus level only (Table 1) | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 111333 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins |
| Modifier: | M. Hopkins | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-06-23 04:36:39 | Last modified: | 2011-06-23 12:27:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-06-23 04:36:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 36489. | F. C. Shaw and T. E. Bolton. 2011. Ordovician trilobites from the Romaine and Mingan Formations (Ibexian-Late Whiterockian), Mingan Islands, Quebec. Journal of Paleontology 85(3):406-441 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] |
Secondary references:
| 36491 | F. C. Shaw. 1980. Shallow-water lithofacies and trilobite biofacies of the Mingan Formation (Ordovician), eastern Quebec. Le Naturaliste Canadien 107(4):227-242 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] |