Also known as 1985F156
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, 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: D. M. Rohr, W. D. Boyce, and E. A. Measures. 2008. The rostroconch mollusc Euchasma Billings, 1865 from the Lower Ordovician Catoche Formation, western Newfoundland. Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy, Report 08(1):79-91 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 133128: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 02.09.2012
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Taxonomic list
Rostroconchia | |
Euchasma blumenbachi Billings 1859 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cassinoceras wortheni Billings 1865 | |
Trilobita | |
Bathyurellus abruptus Billings 1865 trilobite
Petigurus nero Billings 1865 trilobite
Bolbocephalus convexus Billings 1865 trilobite
Jeffersonia timon Billings 1865 trilobite |