Gull Island South Head, Bell Island (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Fillion and Pickerill (1990) locality H

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (47.7° N, 52.9° W: paleocoordinates 65.9° S, 35.6° W)

When: Ochre Cove Formation (Bell Island Group), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified shale and siltstone

• Part of a wave-dominated deltaic complex
• shale, siltstone, sandstone, oolitic ironstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: D. Fillion and R. K. Pickerill. 1990. Ichnology of the Upper Cambrian? to Lower Ordovician Bell Island and Wabana groups of eastern Newfoundland, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 7:1-119 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176013: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 21.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

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 Ichnofossils -
Teichichnus sp., Cruziana billingsi, Palaeophycus tubularis, Skolithos linearis, Gordia sp., Phycodes palmatus
Teichichnus sp. Seilacher 1955
Cruziana billingsi Fillion and Pickerill 1990
Skolithos linearis Haldeman 1840
Gordia sp. Emmons 1844
Phycodes palmatus Hall 1852