Table Cove (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (50.4° N, 57.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.5° S, 42.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Histiodella kristinae conodont zone, Table Cove Formation (Table Head Group), Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• The rocks at Table Cove are mapped as Table Cove Formation by Klappa et al 1980 but as the overlying American Tickle Formation by Stenzel et al 1990. The trilobite fauna in this collection is the same as that found in the upper part of the Table Cove Formation at Table Point, and it is possible that this collection was made from Table Cove clasts deposited in the conglomeratic member of the American Tickle Formation. The collection was made primarily from 30 to 40 feet of limestone exposed on the foreshore south of the cove, but may also contain some specimens collected from the cove itself.

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, gray limestone and lithified shale

• Environmental interpretation of the Table Cove Formation from Stenzel et al 1990
• "Unevenly bedded limestones with shale partings, some dark gray and fine-grained and others granular and lighter gray."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. H. Kindle and H.B. Whittington in 1958, 1961; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: H. B. Whittington. 1965. Trilobites of the Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 132(4):275-441 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104861: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 11.02.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Telephina americana Billings 1865 trilobite
Carolinites "sp. 2" Kobayashi 1940 trilobite
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Ischyrotoma sp. Raymond 1925 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpididae
Harpides atlanticus Billings 1865 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
"Selenoharpes singularis n. sp." = Scotoharpes singularis
"Selenoharpes singularis n. sp." = Scotoharpes singularis Whittington 1965 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus "sp. 1" Dalman 1827 trilobite
Illaenus consimilis Billings 1865 trilobite
Illaenus gelasinus Whittington 1965 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Raymondaspis reticulatus Whittington 1965 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
"Miracybele mira" = Cybelurus mirus
"Miracybele mira" = Cybelurus mirus Billings 1865 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pseudomera barrandei Billings 1865 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurinella polydorus, "Cydonocephalus sp." = Kawina
Ceraurinella polydorus Billings 1865 trilobite
"Cydonocephalus sp." = Kawina Barton 1916 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lonchocephalidae
aff. Calymenidius sp. Rasetti 1944 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia sagittula Whittington 1965 trilobite
Leioshumardia minima Whittington 1965 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Raymondinidae
"? Ischyrophyma sp." = Celmus, Ischyrophyma tumida
"? Ischyrophyma sp." = Celmus Angelin 1854 trilobite
Ischyrophyma tumida Whittington 1965 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Lonchodomas normalis Billings 1865 trilobite
Lonchodomas clavulus Whittington 1965 trilobite
Endymionia schucherti Raymond 1920 trilobite
Ampyxoides semicostatus Billings 1865 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Peraspis lineolata Raymond 1925 trilobite
Nileus affinis Billings 1865 trilobite
Nileus scrutator Billings 1865 trilobite
? Nileus lacunosa Whittington 1965 trilobite
Nileus macrops Billings 1865 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Blosyropsis billingsi Whittington 1965 trilobite
Remopleurides pilulus n. sp. Whittington 1965 trilobite
Robergia schlotheimi Billings 1865 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Stegnopsis huttoni Billings 1865 trilobite
Niobe morrisi Billings 1865 trilobite
Niobe quadraticaudata Billings 1865 trilobite
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Triarthrus fisheri" = Porterfieldia fisheri
"Triarthrus fisheri" = Porterfieldia fisheri Billings 1865 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Galbagnostus galba Billings 1865
"Geragnostus longicollis" = Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis Raymond 1925
Geragnostus fabius Billings 1865
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Onychoplecia kindlei n. sp. Cooper 1956