Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (51.6° N, 56.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° S, 47.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Strigigenalis brevicaudata trilobite zone, Barbace Cove Member (Boat Harbour Formation), Jeffersonian (485.4 - 470.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, massive, gray packstone and grainstone
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 106228: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 04.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Gastropoda | |
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Trilobita | |
"Peltabellia knighti n. sp." = Strigigenalis knighti, Bolbocephalus convexus
"Peltabellia knighti n. sp." = Strigigenalis knighti Boyce 1983 trilobite
Bolbocephalus convexus Billings 1865 trilobite | |
Randaynia langdoni Boyce 1989 trilobite |