White Head Formation, Portage River, 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, gray, blue, argillaceous limestone

• blue-gray, thick-bedded, shaly 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 37799: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 24.03.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx inflatus trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Symphysops spinifera, "Phylacops vigilans" = Cyclopyge vigilans
"Phylacops vigilans" = Cyclopyge vigilans Cooper and Kindle 1936 trilobite