Red Limestone, Smith’s Sound (Cambrian of Canada)

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

• 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

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Taxonomic list

Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Aldanellidae
"Straparollina remota n. sp." = Aldanella remota
"Straparollina remota n. sp." = Aldanella remota Billings 1872
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Tetrathecidae
Holmitheca quadricostatus Shaler and Foerste 1888
 Orthothecida - Novitatidae
Novitatus mapesi n. sp. Malinky 1989
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
"Hyolithes excellens n. sp." = Nevadotheca excellens
"Hyolithes excellens n. sp." = Nevadotheca excellens Billings 1872
 Hyolithida - Pauxillitidae
Neopauxillites zlatarskii n. gen. n. sp. Malinky 1989