Shaw collection Qu-5: Whiterockian, Canada
collected by F. C. Shaw 1960-
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Remopleurididae
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Eorobergia sp.
Cooper 1953
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Isotelus harrisi
Raymond 1905
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Thaleops conifrons
(Billings 1859)
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Thaleops vindex
(Billings 1865)
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Stenopareia globosus
(Billings 1859)
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Styginidae
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Failleana limbata
(Raymond 1910)
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Bathyuridae
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Uromystrum minor
(Raymond 1905)
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Trilobita
- Lichida
- Lichidae
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Amphilichas minganensis
(Billings 1865)
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Amphilichas cf. conradi
Chatterton and Ludvigsen 1976
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Trilobita
- Harpetida
- Harpetidae
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Hibbertia valcourensis
(Shaw 1968)
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Harpes valcourensis | |||||||
Dolichoharpes sp.
Whittington 1949
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
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Sphaerexochus parvus
Billings 1865
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Ceraurinella pompilia
(Billings 1865)
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? Nieszkowskia sp.
Schmidt 1881
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pliomeridae
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Pliomerops canadensis
(Billings 1859)
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pterygometopidae
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Calyptaulax sp.
Cooper 1930
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec |
Coordinates: | 50.2° North, 63.9° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 27.2° South, 47.0° 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 | Trilobite zone: | Bathyurus granulosus/Ceraurinella nahanniensis |
Age range of interval: | 470.00000 - 457.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | nodular lithified wackestone | ||
Secondary lithology: | nodular lithified grainstone | ||
Lithology description: see also Shaw 1980 | |||
Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal | 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." | |||
Taxonomic list comments:Abundances reported to genus level only (Table 1) |
Metadata
Database number: | 111432 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins |
Modifier: | M. Hopkins | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2011-06-24 02:18:55 | Last modified: | 2011-06-23 12:23:38 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-06-24 02:18:55 |
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] |