Shaw collection Wo-2: Whiterockian, Canada
collected by F. C. Shaw 1960-
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Isotelus harrisi
Raymond 1905
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Bathyuridae
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Bathyurus eskimoensis
Twenhofel 1938
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec |
Coordinates: | 50.2° North, 63.2° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 27.4° South, 46.5° 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 | Small shelly zone: | Bathyurus granulosus/Ceraurinella nahanniensis |
Age range of interval: | 470.00000 - 457.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
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: | 111438 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2011-06-24 02:40:48 | Last modified: | 2011-06-23 12:40:48 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-06-24 02:40:48 |
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] |