Table Cove, "Isolated Limestone" (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as "Isolated limestone" locality of Raymond 1925

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)

• Formation assignment based on trilobite faunal assemblage

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, nodular, gray limestone

• Environmental interpretation of the Table Cove Formation from Stenzel et al 1990
• "...dark gray, thin-bedded and nodular [limestone], abundantly fossiliferous."

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 104862: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 11.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"cybelinid" indet.
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Galbagnostus galba, Geragnostus fabius, "Geragnostus longicollis" = Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis
Galbagnostus galba Billings 1865
Geragnostus fabius Billings 1865
"Geragnostus longicollis" = Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis Raymond 1925
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Raymondinidae
"? Ischyrophyma sp." = Celmus, Ischyrophyma tumida
"? Ischyrophyma sp." = Celmus Angelin 1854 trilobite
Ischyrophyma tumida Whittington 1965 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Leioshumardia minima, Shumardia sagittula
Leioshumardia minima Whittington 1965 trilobite
Shumardia sagittula Whittington 1965 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Robergia schlotheimi, Blosyropsis billingsi
Robergia schlotheimi Billings 1865 trilobite
Blosyropsis billingsi Whittington 1965 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Stegnopsis huttoni, Niobe quadraticaudata, Niobe morrisi
Stegnopsis huttoni Billings 1865 trilobite
Niobe quadraticaudata Billings 1865 trilobite
Niobe morrisi Billings 1865 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Peraspis lineolata, Nileus affinis, Nileus macrops
Peraspis lineolata Raymond 1925 trilobite
Nileus affinis Billings 1865 trilobite
Nileus macrops Billings 1865 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyxoides semicostatus, Lonchodomas clavulus, Lonchodomas normalis
Ampyxoides semicostatus Billings 1865 trilobite
Lonchodomas clavulus Whittington 1965 trilobite
Lonchodomas normalis Billings 1865 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Telephina americana, Goniophrys ? breviceps
Telephina americana Billings 1865 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
? Phaseolops sp.
? Phaseolops sp. Whittington 1963 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpididae
Harpides atlanticus
Harpides atlanticus Billings 1865 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Raymondaspis reticulatus
Raymondaspis reticulatus Whittington 1965 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus "sp. 2", Illaenus consimilis, Illaenus gelasinus
Illaenus "sp. 2" Dalman 1827 trilobite
Illaenus consimilis Billings 1865 trilobite
Illaenus gelasinus Whittington 1965 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
"Miracybele mira" = Cybelurus mirus
"Miracybele mira" = Cybelurus mirus Billings 1865 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
"Heliomera sol" = Heliomeroides teres, Ceraurinella polydorus
"Heliomera sol" = Heliomeroides teres Evitt 1951 trilobite
Ceraurinella polydorus Billings 1865 trilobite
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Triarthrus fisheri" = Porterfieldia fisheri
"Triarthrus fisheri" = Porterfieldia fisheri Billings 1865 trilobite