Pillage Bay, Mingan Islands: Cassinian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites romainensis n. sp. Twenhofel 1938
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Raphistomina pillagenensis n. sp. Twenhofel 1938
Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Eopteriidae
Conocardium blumenbachium n. sp. Billings 1859
Billings 1859
recombined as Euchasma blumenbachi
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Quebec County:Mingan
Coordinates: 50.3° North, 64.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.2° South, 51.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 1-2
Key time interval:Cassinian
Age range of interval:482.00000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Romaine
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified dolomite
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:56519
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-20 18:33:10 Last modified:2006-09-03 23:07:03
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-20 18:33:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
15148. W. H. Twenhofel. 1938. Geology and paleontology of the Mingan Islands, Quebec. Geological Society of America Special Paper 11:1-123 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

15754 E. Billings. 1859. Fossils of the Calciferous Sandrock, including those of a deposit of white limestone at Mingan, supposed to belong to the formation. The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 4:345-367 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]