Mingan Islands, Romaine Formation (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (50.2° N, 63.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° S, 53.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Romaine Formation, Jeffersonian to Jeffersonian (485.4 - 470.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1942. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, Part I: Nautilicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 37:1-157 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99217: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 02.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Protocycloceratidae
"Protocycloceras becki" = Protocycloceras lamarcki1 Billings 1859
Catoraphiceras sordidum1 Billings 1859
 Multiceratoidea - Bassleroceratidae
Avaoceras sp.1 Ulrich et al. 1944
 Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
Curtoceras minganense Foerste 1938
Curtoceras with question mark
 Tarphycerida - Tarphyceratidae
Tarphyceras palinurus Billings 1861
Eurystomites ferox Billings 1861
 Bisonocerida - Piloceratidae
Allopiloceras canadense2 Billings 1860
Allopiloceras coarctum2 Foerste 1938
Cassinoceras magister2 Foerste 1938
Cassinoceras cf. wortheni2 Billings 1865