Meaford, 4 miles NW, along the north and south road, Queenston Shale (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (44.7° N, 80.7° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° S, 52.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Queenston Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. F. Foerste. 1924. Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 138(121):1-99 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173041: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 08.09.2015

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Ostracoda
 Hollinocopida - Eurychilinidae
Eurychilina striatomarginata Miller 1874 ostracod
 Leperditellocopida - Primitiidae
Primitia lativia Ulrich 1889 ostracod
 Beyrichicopida - Drepanellidae
Drepanella richardsoni Miller 1874 ostracod
Drepanella richardsoni canadensis
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia caecigena Miller 1881 ostracod