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: Table Cove Formation (Table Head Group), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• Footage estimated from Figure 3 of Whittington and Kindle 1963 and confirmed from reported stratigraphic ranges in Whittington 1965. Table Cove Formation (Klappa et al 1980) = "Middle Table Head Formation" of Whittington and Kindle 1963.
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, fine-grained, black, gray, muddy limestone and lithified, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. H. Kindle and H.B. Whittington in 1958, 1961; reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
Primary reference: H. B. Whittington and C. H. Kindle. 1963. Middle Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland. Geological Society America Bulletin 74:745-758 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 104813: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 10.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Trilobita | |
"Miracybele mira" = Cybelurus mirus
"Miracybele mira" = Cybelurus mirus Billings 1865 trilobite | |
Endymionia schucherti Raymond 1920 trilobite
Lonchodomas normalis Billings 1865 trilobite
Ampyxoides semicostatus Billings 1865 trilobite | |
Niobe quadraticaudata Billings 1865 trilobite
Niobe morrisi Billings 1865 trilobite
Stegnopsis huttoni Billings 1865 trilobite | |
Robergia schlotheimi Billings 1865 trilobite | |
Nileus affinis Billings 1865 trilobite
Nileus macrops Billings 1865 trilobite | |
? Phaseolops sp. Whittington 1963 trilobite | |
Telephina americana Billings 1865 trilobite | |
Harpides atlanticus Billings 1865 trilobite | |
"Triarthrus fischeri" = Porterfieldia fischeri
"Triarthrus fischeri" = Porterfieldia fischeri Billings 1865 trilobite | |
Illaenus consimilis Billings 1865 trilobite | |
Raymondaspis reticulatus Whittington 1965 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Galbagnostus galba, "Geragnostus longicollis" = Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis, Geragnostus fabius
Galbagnostus galba Billings 1865
"Geragnostus longicollis" = Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis Raymond 1925
Geragnostus fabius Billings 1865 |