Where: Québec, Canada (48.7° N, 65.8° W: paleocoordinates 23.6° S, 40.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: 2 Member (White Head Formation), Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• "Unit" 2
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; shale and siltstone
Size class: microfossils
Collection methods: chemical,
Primary reference: G. S. Nowlan. 1981. Late Ordovician - Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy of the Gaspé Peninsula - a preliminary report. In P. J. Lespérance (ed.), Field meeting, Anticosti-Gaspé, Québec, 1981: IUGS Subcommssion on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group Guidebook 2:257-291 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24861: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 21.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
? Paroistodus mutatus conodont
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Panderodus gibber conodont
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Amorphognathus ? ordovicicus Bergström and Bergström 1996 conodont |