Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (51.6° N, 55.9° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° S, 45.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Strigigenalis caudata trilobite zone, Catoche Formation (St. George Group), Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, massive, gray dolomite
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 106240: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 04.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Jeffersonia timon Billings 1865 trilobite
Petigurus nero Billings 1865 trilobite |