The Cote Fréchette (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Cote du Passage

Where: Quebec, Canada (46.8° N, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 52.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Undulograptus dentatus graptolite zone, Upper Member (Shumardia Limestone Formation), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• Upper half of Undulograptus austrodentatus zone globally.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomitic, green mudstone and shale

• Green or grey dolomitic mudstones with some black shales, calcirudites and calcarenites.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: F. F. Osborne. 1971. Appendix - Note on type locality of Isograptus caduceus. Journal of Paleontology 45(5):909-909 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174725: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Dendrograptidae
Dendrograptus cf. gracilis Hall 1865 graptolite
? Ptilograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
Cryptograptus antennarius Hall 1865 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Isograptidae
"Didymograptus caduceus n. sp." = Parisograptus caduceus
"Didymograptus caduceus n. sp." = Parisograptus caduceus Salter and Bigby 1853 graptolite
subspecies Isograptus caduceus caduceus
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
"Glyptograptus cf. austrodentatus" = Levisograptus austrodentatus, "Glyptograptus dentatus" = Levisograptus dentatus
"Glyptograptus cf. austrodentatus" = Levisograptus austrodentatus Harris and Keble 1932 graptolite
"Glyptograptus dentatus" = Levisograptus dentatus Brongniart 1828 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus cf. nicholsoni Lapworth 1875 graptolite
Loganograptus logani graptolite
subspecies Loganograptus logani cf. reliquus and L. aff. L. logani pertenuis
 Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
Tetragraptus amii Elles and Wood 1902 graptolite