Table Point, "Upper Table Head", 15 feet (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: Black Cove Formation (Goose Tickle Group), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• "Upper Table Cove Formation" of Kindle and Whittington 1963 = Black Cove Formation of Klappa et al 1980 (and placed in Goose Tickle Group by Stenzel et al 1990).

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified, black, carbonaceous shale

• Environmental setting from Stenzel et al 1990

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 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 104858: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 11.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Diplograptus decoratus graptolite
ID by W.B.N. Berry
"Glyptograptus dentatus" = Levisograptus dentatus Brongniart 1828 graptolite
subspecies teretiusculus? ID by W.B.N. Berry
Amplexograptus arctus graptolite
ID by W.B.N. Berry
Amplexograptus confertus graptolite
ID by W.B.N. Berry
Amplexograptus modicellus graptolite
ID by W.B.N. Berry
Amplexograptus sp. graptolite
ID by W.B.N. Berry
 Graptoloidea - Lasiograptidae
Lasiograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 lasiograptid
ID by W.B.N. Berry
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Climacograptus riddellensis climacograptid
ID by W.B.N. Berry
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid
ID by W.B.N. Berry
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Glyptograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
ID by W.B.N. Berry
 Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
"Cryptograptus schaferi" = Cryptograptus schaeferi
"Cryptograptus schaferi" = Cryptograptus schaeferi Lapworth 1880 graptolite
ID by W.B.N. Berry