BH-26 (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (51.6° N, 56.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° S, 50.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Randaynia saundersi trilobite zone, Lower Member (Boat Harbour Formation), Demingian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, bioturbated, stromatolitic reef rocks

• "stomatolitic and thrombolitic, dark blue-gray, rubbly weathering, massive. Mounds large, built up by digitate stromatolites and thrombolites; beef-calcite structures seen. Mounds fossiliferous...interfill consists of blue-gray lime mudstone, wackestone, packstone, and grainstone and buff dolomitic material, thinly interbedded, locally extensively bioturbated."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. D. Boyce in 1976-87

Primary reference: W. D. Boyce. 1989. Early Ordovician trilobite faunas of the Boat Harbour and Catoche Formations (St. George Group) in the Boat-Harbour-Cape Norman area, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland. Geological Survey Branch, Department of Mines and Energy, Newfoundland and Labrador, Report 89-2 1-168 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106214: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 04.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet.
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthidae indet.
Orthidae indet. Woodward 1852
Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Hillyardina levis
Hillyardina levis Boyce 1989 trilobite
 Asaphida - Symphysurinidae
Randaynia saundersi
Randaynia saundersi Boyce 1989 trilobite