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 - 468.1 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 106234: 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 | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Trilobita | |
Bolbocephalus convexus, "Jeffersonia angustimarginata" = Jeffersonia jenni, "Peltabellia knighti" = Strigigenalis knighti, Grinnellaspis newfoundlandensis
Bolbocephalus convexus Billings 1865 trilobite
"Jeffersonia angustimarginata" = Jeffersonia jenni Cullison 1944 trilobite
"Peltabellia knighti" = Strigigenalis knighti Boyce 1983 trilobite
Grinnellaspis newfoundlandensis Boyce 1989 trilobite | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 |