Shaw collection E-2: Whiterockian, Canada
collected by F. C. Shaw 1960-

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus harrisi Raymond 1905
Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Bathyurus eskimoensis Twenhofel 1938
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Quebec
Coordinates: 50.2° North, 63.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.2° South, 46.8° 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
Formation:Mingan Member:lower
Stratigraphy comments: Bathyurus granulosus (nearshore biofacies) and Ceraurinella nahanniensis (open shelf biofacies) biozones are partially concurrent (Tremblay and Westrop 1991).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:carbonate indet. 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
Museum repositories:GSC
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."
Metadata
Database number:111353
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Modifier:M. Hopkins Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-06-23 06:07:10 Last modified:2011-06-23 11:54:50
Access level:the public Released:2011-06-23 06:07:10
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]