Grande Coupe stream (Ordovician to of Canada)

Also known as White Head Formation, Grande Coupe, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.5° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 39.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Grande Coupe Formation, Richmondian to Richmondian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• Was White Head

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: P. J. Lespérance and J. A. W. Weissenberger. 1998. Trilobites of the Pabos Formation (Ashgillian, Upper Ordovician), Percé area, Quebec. Journal of Paleontology 72(2):303-316 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37469: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 15.03.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites sp.1 von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral
 Sarcinulida - Syringophyllidae
Calapoecia sp.1 Billings 1865 tabulate coral
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
Nyctopora sp.1 Nicholson 1879 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma sp.1 Hall 1847 horn coral
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
"Cyclopyge kindlei" = Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) kindlei1 Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
"Cyclopyge insolens" = Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) insolens1 Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
Symphysops sp.1 Raymond 1925 trilobite
Cyclopyge sp.1 Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
"Phylacops vigilans" = Cyclopyge vigilans1 Cooper and Kindle 1936 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp.1 Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax glabella1 Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Sphaerexochus bridgei1 Cooper and Kindle 1936 trilobite
Sphaerocoryphe sp.1 Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinurus sp.1 Emmrich 1844 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Calymene consimilis" = Diacalymene consimilis1
"Calymene consimilis" = Diacalymene consimilis1 Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
"Illaenus perceensis" = Stenopareia perceensis1
"Illaenus perceensis" = Stenopareia perceensis1 Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
"Otarion minima" = Harpidella minima1
"Otarion minima" = Harpidella minima1 Schuchert and Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion sp.1 Zenker 1833 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Sphaeragnostidae
Sphaeragnostus gaspensis1 Cooper and Kindle 1936
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Conotreta sp.1 Walcott 1889
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
"Diambonia septata" = Leangella (Leangella) septata1
"Diambonia septata" = Leangella (Leangella) septata1 Cooper 1930
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella gigantea1 Schuchert and Cooper 1930
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Holtedahlina sulcata1 Hall and Clarke 1892
H. sulcata parva
 Billingsellida - Gonambonitidae
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Cliftonia perfecta1
Cliftonia (Oxoplecia) perfecta
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
"Plectatrypa gaspeensis" = Spirigerina (Eospirigerina) gaspeensis1
"Plectatrypa gaspeensis" = Spirigerina (Eospirigerina) gaspeensis1 Schuchert and Cooper 1930
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
 Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
 Oncocerida - Oonoceratidae
"? Ooceras sp." = Oonoceras2
"? Ooceras sp." = Oonoceras2 Hyatt 1884
 Multiceratoidea - Apsidoceratidae
 Ascocerida - Ascoceratidae
 Endocerida - Narthecoceratidae
Donacoceras percense2 Foerste 1936
 Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
 Dissidocerida - Geisonoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Pterobranchia
  - Cyclograptidae
Marsipograptus percensis1 Ruedemann 1936 graptolite