Petite Caroline, Lorraine Fm.: Maysvillian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Catazyga headi (Billings 1862)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina alternata (Conrad 1838)
Rafinesquina mucronata Foerste 1914
Leptaena moniquensis Foerste 1924
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
Plectambonites sericeus Sowerby 1839
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Cryptolithus bellulus (Ulrich 1879)
synonym of Cryptolithus tessellatus
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Quebec
Coordinates: 45.5° North, 73.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.6° South, 48.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Maysvillian
Age range of interval:450.40000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lorraine
Stratigraphy comments:
"Cryptolithus zone and Leptaena zone of Lorraine Formation", in Foerste (1924)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:173242
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:S. Scholze
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-09-14 05:20:08 Last modified:2015-09-14 05:20:08
Access level:the public Released:2015-09-14 05:20:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11615. A. F. Foerste. 1924. Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 138(121):1-99 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]