Also known as Locality A of Neuman 1964
Where: Penobscot County, Maine (46.1° N, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° S, 55.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Shin Brook Formation, Rangerian (470.0 - 470.3 Ma)
• Was Canadian-Whiterockian
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, conglomeratic tuff
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. B. Neuman. 1964. Fossils in the Ordovician Tuffs Northeastern Maine, with a section on Trilobita by Harry B. Whittington. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1181(E):1-38 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 115156: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 30.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Demospongea | |
"Demospongea indet." = Demospongiae
"Demospongea indet." = Demospongiae Sollas 1875 demosponge | |
Cystoidea | |
Cystoidea indet. von Buch 1846 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Platystrophia sp. King 1850 | |
"Orthambonites robustus" = Paralenorthis robustus
"Orthambonites robustus" = Paralenorthis robustus Neuman 1964 | |
Productorthis mainensis Neuman 1964 | |
Strophomenata | |
Stenolaemata | |
Batostoma sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Nicholsonella sp. Ulrich 1890 | |
Trilobita | |
Raymondaspis sp. Pribyl 1948 trilobite | |
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
? Annamitella borealis Neuman 1964 trilobite | |
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
? Hibbertia sp. Jones and Woodward 1899 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Geragnostus sp. Howell 1935 |