Quarry 2.2 km north of the Ouiatchouaniche River, Roberval: Edenian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Remopleurididae
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Hypodicranotus striatulus
(Walcott 1875)
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
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Ceraurus matranseris
Sinclair 1947
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec | County: | Lac Saint-Jean |
Coordinates: | 48.5° North, 72.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 23.9° South, 48.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4 | ||
Key time interval: | Edenian | ||
Age range of interval: | 460.90000 - 449.50000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "shale" |
Secondary lithology: | wackestone |
Lithology description: This unit is a succession of shale and interbedded wackestone, packstone, and grainstone that is up to 15 m in thickness | |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | GSC |
Metadata
Database number: | 163862 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2014-11-18 18:56:40 | Last modified: | 2014-11-18 18:59:10 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-11-18 18:56:40 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
53465. | P. J. Lespérance and D. Desbiens. 1995. Selected Ordovician trilobites from the Lake St. John District of Quebec and their bearing on systematics. Paleontological Society Memoir 42:1-19 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |