GSC 96727: Ibexian, Canada
collected by T.E. Bolton 1978

Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Quebec
Coordinates: 50.2° North, 64.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.6° South, 55.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian-Ordovician
Key time interval:Ibexian
Age range of interval:487.50000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Romaine Member:upper
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:carbonate indet. 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:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collectors:T.E. Bolton Collection dates:1978
Collection method comments: Paper states that: "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." GSC locality numbers all likely to have been collected by Bolton and others in 1978 (Shaw collections are listed separately).
Metadata
Database number:111460
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-06-24 04:44:46 Last modified:2011-06-23 14:44:46
Access level:the public Released:2011-06-24 04:44:46
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]