Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (48.2° N, 53.7° W: paleocoordinates 81.4° S, 51.7° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Callavia broeggeri trilobite zone, Brigus Formation, Branchian (517.1 - 509.0 Ma)
• Was the Smith Point formation, but that is now divided into two units. (Malinky 1988.)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: red limestone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: E. Billings. 1872. On some fossils from the primordial rocks of Newfoundland. Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science 6:465-479 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99574: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Helcionelloida | |
"Straparollina remota n. sp." = Aldanella remota
"Straparollina remota n. sp." = Aldanella remota Billings 1872 | |
Hyolitha | |
Holmitheca quadricostatus Shaler and Foerste 1888 | |
Novitatus mapesi n. sp.
Novitatus mapesi n. sp. Malinky 1989 | |
"Hyolithes excellens n. sp." = Nevadotheca excellens
"Hyolithes excellens n. sp." = Nevadotheca excellens Billings 1872 | |
Neopauxillites zlatarskii n. gen. n. sp.
Neopauxillites zlatarskii n. gen. n. sp. Malinky 1989 |