Section G, Shipshaw River: Edenian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Cyclospiridae
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Cyclospira bisulcata
(Emmons 1842)
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Isotelus informal sp. 2
Dekay 1824
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Isotelus gigas
(Dekay 1824)
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| recombined as Asaphus gigas | |||||||
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Illaenus americanus
Billings 1859
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| replaced by Thaleops laurentiana | |||||||
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
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Ceraurus matranseris
Sinclair 1947
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Calymenidae
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Flexicalymene senaria
(Conrad 1841)
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| recombined as Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) senaria | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 48.7° North, 71.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.1° South, 47.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 |
| Key time interval: | Edenian | Graptolite zone: | Climacograptus spiniferus - Climacograptus pygmaeus |
| Age range of interval: | 451.10000 - 450.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Galets |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal packstone |
| Lithology description: Calcarenites (echinodennal grainstones); in massive beds up to 1 m thick, averaging 50 cm; shale almost absent | |
| 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: | 192340 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-03-23 23:57:13 | Last modified: | 2018-03-23 23:57:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-03-23 23:57:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 65081. | S. Desbiens and P. J. Lespérance. 1989. Stratigraphy of the Ordovician of the Lac Saint-Jean and Chicoutimi outliers, Quebec. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26(6):1185-1202 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |