Aylmer, Aylmer Sandstone: Chazyan, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingula lyelli Billings 1859
Raymond 1911
recombined as Ectenoglossa lyelli
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Camarotoechia cf. plena (Hall 1847)
Raymond 1906
recombined as Rostricellula plena
Camarotoechia cf. Camarotoechia plena
Camarotoechia orientalis (Billings 1859)
Raymond 1911
recombined as Rostricellula orientalis
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella imperator (Billings 1859)
Raymond 1911
recombined as Mimella imperator
Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Whitella canadensis Raymond 1905
Raymond 1905
recombined as Sowteria canadensis
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sowteri Raymond 1905
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Quebec
Coordinates: 45.4° North, 75.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.5° South, 55.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2-4
Key time interval:Chazyan
Age range of interval:470.00000 - 457.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "Aylmer sandstone (upper Chazy) about sixty feet above the high water mark of Lake Descenes", in Raymond (1916)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
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:171789
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-20 05:37:12 Last modified:2024-03-31 19:20:59
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-20 05:37:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

55816. P. E. Raymond. 1916. The Pelecypoda of the Chazy Formation. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 328:325-343 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]

Secondary references:

15471 P. E. Raymond. 1905. The fauna of the Chazy Limestone. The American Journal of Science 20:353-382 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
15149 P. E. Raymond. 1906. The Chazy Formation and its fauna. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 3(4):498-596 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
53676 P. E. Raymond. 1911. The Brachiopoda and Ostracoda of the Chazyan. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 7:215-259 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]