BH-54 (Ordovician of Canada)

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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, intraclastic, gray packstone and grainstone

• "intraclastic, dark blue-gray; intraclasts subangular to subrounded, up to 3.5 cm in length and 2 cm in diameter, [comprised of] lime mudstone and wackestone, pink to reddish."

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 106235: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 04.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Petigurus nero Billings 1865 trilobite
Strigigenalis brevicaudata Boyce 1989 trilobite
Grinnellaspis newfoundlandensis Boyce 1989 trilobite