Île Quarry. 25 ft above base of Mingan. (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Quarry Island

Where: Quebec, Canada (50.2° N, 63.8° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 45.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mingan Formation, Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: yellow, calcareous sandstone

• Sandstone, gray and yellow, composed of quartz sand with calcareous

•cement.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186175: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Bucania minganensis
Bucania minganensis Twenhofel 1938 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Camerellidae
"Onychoplecia longirostra" = Camarella longirostris
"Onychoplecia longirostra" = Camarella longirostris Billings 1859
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
"Leptaena incrassata" = Dactylogonia incrassata
"Leptaena incrassata" = Dactylogonia incrassata Hall 1847
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Crepipora adherens
Ostracoda
 Leperditellocopida - Schmidtellidae
Schmidtella crassimarginata
Schmidtella crassimarginata Ulrich 1890 ostracod