Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (51.6° N, 56.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° S, 45.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Strigigenalis caudata trilobite zone, Barbace Cove Member (Boat Harbour Formation), Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)
• Top 60 cm of 4.24 m unit that describes based on biozone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, intraclastic, gray lime mudstone and wackestone
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 106237: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 04.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Bolbocephalus convexus, Strigigenalis brevicaudata, Strigigenalis caudata, "Bolbocephalus stevensi n. sp." = Strigigenalis stevensi
Bolbocephalus convexus Billings 1865 trilobite
Strigigenalis brevicaudata Boyce 1989 trilobite
Strigigenalis caudata Billings 1865 trilobite
"Bolbocephalus stevensi n. sp." = Strigigenalis stevensi Boyce 1989 trilobite | |
Isoteloides peri Fortey 1979 trilobite | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 |