Priest's Road. Remipyga fauna: Ashgill, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Tretadella sp.
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Ostracoda
- Leperditellocopida
- Aparchitidae
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cf. Macronotella sp.
Ulrich 1894
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Stenopareia spp.
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Proetidae
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Warburgella bella
(Cooper and Kindle 1936)
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recombined as Cyphoproetus bellus | |||||||
Trilobita
- Proetida
- Tropidocoryphidae
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Proetidella subornatus
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synonym of Decoroproetus | |||||||
Trilobita
- Proetida
- Otarionidae
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Otarion sp.
Zenker 1833
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Calymenidae
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Flexicalymene sp.
Shirley 1936
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Diacalymene aff. consimilis
(Schuchert and Cooper 1930)
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pterygometopidae
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Achatella sp.
Delo 1935
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Calyptaulax glabella
Cooper 1930
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Encrinuridae
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Encrinurus spp.
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
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Remipyga icarus
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synonym of Ceraurinus | |||||||
Ceraurinella elongatus
(Schuchert and Cooper 1930)
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synonym of Ceraurinus icarus | |||||||
Ceraurinella informal sp. b
Cooper 1953
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Sphaerocoryphe sp.
Angelin 1854
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Ceraurus informal sp. a
Green 1832
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Sphaerexochus sp.
Beyrich 1845
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Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Raphiophoridae
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Lonchodomas sp.
Angelin 1854
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Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Trinucleidae
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Tretaspis sp.
M'Coy 1849
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Cyclopygidae
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Heterocyclopyge kindlei
(Schuchert and Cooper 1930)
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recombined as Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) kindlei | |||||||
Heterocyclopyge insolens
(Schuchert and Cooper 1930)
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recombined as Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) insolens | |||||||
Symphysops sp.
Raymond 1925
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Cyclopyge vigilans
(Cooper and Kindle 1936)
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Isotelus informal sp. b
Dekay 1824
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Remopleurididae
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Remopleurides striatus
Cooper and Kindle 1936
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Trilobita
- Odontopleurida
- Odontopleuridae
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Primaspis sp.
Richter and Richter 1917
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Orphanaspis sp.
Prantl and Pribyl 1949
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec |
Coordinates: | 48.5° North, 64.3° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 24.0° South, 39.2° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 | ||
*Period: | Late/Upper Ordovician | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Ashgill - Middle Ashgill |
Key time interval: | Ashgill | ||
Age range of interval: | 449.60000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Grande Coupe |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | red or brown lithified "limestone" |
Lithology description: Fauna was collected from thin beds of red weathering crinoidal limestones, thick unweathered beds of crinoidal limestone, and finely crystalline limestones. | |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:Paper focuses on trilobites only, but occassionally includes a few other taxa which are included here. |
Metadata
Also known as: | White Head Fm, Perce, Quebec, low or mid Ashgill, Remipyga fauna- Patzkowsky | ||
Database number: | 13131 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | A. Krug |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2002-01-22 10:47:36 | Last modified: | 2021-11-07 16:14:12 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-01-22 10:47:36 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
4376. | P. J. Lespérance. 1968. Ordovician and Silurian trilobite faunas of the White Head Formation, Percé Region, Québec. Journal of Paleontology 42(3):811-826 [M. Patzkowsky/A. Krug/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
78529 | P. J. Lespérance and J. A. W. Weissenberger. 1998. Trilobites of the Pabos Formation (Ashgillian, Upper Ordovician), Percé area, Quebec. Journal of Paleontology 72(2):303-316 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |