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 Point Formation (Table Head Group), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• Footage estimated from base of section depicted in Figure 2 of Whittington and Kindle 1963. "Lower Table Head Formation" of Whittington and Kindle 1963 = Table Point Formation of Klappa et al 1990.
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
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 104882: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 11.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Illaenus marginalis Raymond 1925 trilobite | |
Uromystrum validum trilobite |