St. Hilaire, Waynesville Fm. (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Mont-Saint-Hilaire

Where: Quebec, Canada (45.6° N, 73.2° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° S, 46.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

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 173244: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 14.09.2015

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"Strophomena hecuba" = Tetraphalerella hecuba Billings 1860
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Catazyga headi Billings 1862
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Pterina (Caritodens) demissa" = Pterinea demissa
"Pterina (Caritodens) demissa" = Pterinea demissa Conrad 1842 oyster
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
"Whitella complanata" = Cyrtodontula complanata
"Whitella complanata" = Cyrtodontula complanata Foerste 1914 clam