White Head Formation, Whitehead, Perce, Quebec (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (48.5° N, 64.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.3° S, 41.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: White Head Formation, Edenian to Edenian (451.0 - 443.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper and C.H. Kindle. 1936. New brachiopods and trilobites from the Ordovician of Perce, Quebec. Journal of Paleontology 10(5):348-372 [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37796: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 24.03.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia inferaplicata" = Platystrophia inferaplica
"Platystrophia inferaplicata" = Platystrophia inferaplica Cooper 1930
Trilobita
 Lichida - Lichidae
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
"Ceraurinus elongatus" = Ceraurinus icarus
"Ceraurinus elongatus" = Ceraurinus icarus Billings 1860 trilobite