Lac Deschênes at Aylmer, Aylmer Sandstone: Chazyan, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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
Geological group:Chazy
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
Also known as:Lake Deschenes
Database number:172191
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-29 05:00:38 Last modified:2024-03-31 19:20:59
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-29 05:00:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15471. P. E. Raymond. 1905. The fauna of the Chazy Limestone. The American Journal of Science 20:353-382 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]