Where: Newfoundland, Canada (50.6° N, 57.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° S, 72.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Bonnia - Olenellus trilobite zone, Forteau Formation (Labrador Group), Dyeran (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: silty, sandy mudstone and silty, sandy shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: W. D. Boyce. 2006. An occurrence of the Scottish trilobite Olenellus lapworthi Peach and Horne, 1892 in the early Cambrian Forteau Formation (Labrador Group) Hawkes Bay, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland, Canada. In V. Millien (ed.), Canadian Paleontology Conference 2006-Proceedings No. 4 (4)6-7 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 196374: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 11.09.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hyolitha | |
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840 | |
Trilobita | |
Wanneria sp. Walcott 1910 trilobite | |
"Olenellus lapworthi" = Fritzolenellus lapworthi, Olenellus sp.
"Olenellus lapworthi" = Fritzolenellus lapworthi Peach and Horne 1892 trilobite
Olenellus sp. Hall 1861 trilobite |