Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (48.6° N, 58.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 44.1° 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 faunal assemblage ("Middle Table Head Formation" of Whittington and Kindle 1963 = Table Cove Formation of Klappa et al 1980)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; limestone and shale

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 104864: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 11.02.2011

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