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 (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, gray lime mudstone and wackestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. D. Boyce in 1976-87
• 10.8 meter unit collected at cm scale but only trilobite ranges reported.
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 106241: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 04.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Isoteloides latimarginatus" = Isoteloides canalis
"Isoteloides latimarginatus" = Isoteloides canalis Whitfield 1886 trilobite | |
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Ischyrotoma anataphra Fortey 1979 trilobite | |
Catochia ornata, Bolbocephalus convexus, Bolbocephalus kindlei, Jeffersonia timon, "Jeffersonia angustimarginata" = Jeffersonia jenni, Petigurus nero, Strigigenalis caudata, Bathyurellus abruptus, Benthamaspis conica, Benthamaspis cf. conica, Uromystrum cf. affine
Catochia ornata Fortey 1979 trilobite
Bolbocephalus convexus Billings 1865 trilobite
Bolbocephalus kindlei Boyce 1989 trilobite
Jeffersonia timon Billings 1865 trilobite
"Jeffersonia angustimarginata" = Jeffersonia jenni Cullison 1944 trilobite
Petigurus nero Billings 1865 trilobite
Strigigenalis caudata Billings 1865 trilobite
Bathyurellus abruptus Billings 1865 trilobite
Benthamaspis conica Fortey 1979 trilobite
Benthamaspis cf. conica Fortey 1979 trilobite
Uromystrum cf. affine Poulsen 1937 trilobite | |
Strotactinus insularis Billings 1865 trilobite |