PBDB Collection

Catoche Point, Catoche Formation (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (50.7° N, 57.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 2.2° N, 82.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Catoche Formation (St. George Group), Tulean to Tulean (481.7 - 471.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; thrombolitic limestone and dolomitic limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W. D. Boyce. 1985. Cambrian-Ordovician biostratigraphic investigations, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland. Current Research 85(1):60-70 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195776: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 24.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
-	Trilobita "indet. A", Trilobita "indet. B" Trilobita "indet. A" Walch 1771 trilobite Strigigenalis caudata Trilobita "indet. B" Walch 1771 trilobite Petigurus nero
Proetida - Bathyuridae	Petigurus sp., Petigurus nero, Bolbocephalus convexus, "Jeffersonia angustimarginata" = Jeffersonia jenni, Jeffersonia timon, Catochia glabra, Catochia ornata, Benthamaspis gibberula, Benthamaspis conica, Uromystrum forteyi, Punka sp., Punka flabelliformis, Bathyurellus abruptus, Bathyurellus platypus, Strigigenalis brevicaudata, Strigigenalis caudata Petigurus sp. Raymond 1913 trilobite Petigurus nero Billings 1865 trilobite Bolbocephalus convexus Billings 1865 trilobite "Jeffersonia angustimarginata" = Jeffersonia jenni Cullison 1944 trilobite Jeffersonia timon Billings 1865 trilobite Catochia glabra Fortey 1979 trilobite Catochia ornata Fortey 1979 trilobite Benthamaspis gibberula Billings 1865 trilobite Benthamaspis conica Fortey 1979 trilobite Uromystrum forteyi Boyce 1983 trilobite Punka sp. Fortey 1979 trilobite Punka flabelliformis Fortey 1979 trilobite Bathyurellus abruptus Billings 1865 trilobite Bathyurellus platypus Fortey 1979 trilobite Strigigenalis brevicaudata Boyce 1989 trilobite Strigigenalis caudata Billings 1865 trilobite
Proetida - Telephinidae	"Opipeuter sp." = Opipeuterella, Carolinites genacinaca "Opipeuter sp." = Opipeuterella Fortey 2005 trilobite Opipeuter sp. cf. O. angularis Carolinites genacinaca Ross 1951 trilobite Carolinites genacinaca nevadensis
Proetida - Dimeropygidae	Ischyrotoma anataphra Ischyrotoma anataphra Fortey 1979 trilobite
Asaphida - Asaphidae	Isoteloides peri, "Isoteloides latimarginatus" = Isoteloides canalis Isoteloides peri Fortey 1979 trilobite "Isoteloides latimarginatus" = Isoteloides canalis Whitfield 1886 trilobite
Phacopida - Pliomeridae	Strotactinus insularis Strotactinus insularis Billings 1865 trilobite