Where: Quebec, Canada (46.0° N, 72.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 49.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nicolet River Formation (Lorraine Group), Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• Listed as Upper Caradoc, Local series: Lorraine(Maysville)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified shale and poorly lithified, silty shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. W. Bretsky. 1977. Macroinvertebrate teilzones and episodic faunal changes from an Upper Ordovician flysch in Quebec. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 14:1674-1686 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77221: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 02.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Zygospira cf. modesta Hall 1847 | |
Dalmanellidae indet., "Onniella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki
Dalmanellidae indet. Schuchert 1913
"Onniella meeki" = Cincinnetina meeki Miller 1875 | |
Heterorthina sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
Strophomenata | |
Eoplectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929 | |
Bivalvia | |
Praenucula sp. Pfab 1934 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Temnodiscus parvus Koken and Perner 1925 snail | |
Trilobita | |
"Cryptolithus bellulus" = Cryptolithus tessellatus
"Cryptolithus bellulus" = Cryptolithus tessellatus Green 1832 trilobite |