Lance Cove, Bell Island, NFLD ( of Canada)

Also known as Filion and Pickerel (1990) locality C

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (47.6° N, 53.0° W: paleocoordinates 71.4° S, 43.6° W)

When: Beach Formation (Bell Island Group), Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• Lower Tremadoc according to Fillion and Pickerel 1990

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, silty, sandy siltstone and lithified, muddy shale

• Part of storm dominated deltaic complex, including subenvironments: tidal-flat, off-shore bar, and deltaic
• Sandy siltstone, silty shale, 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 176088: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 27.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

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 Ichnofossils -
Cruziana sp., Cruziana tortworthi
Cruziana sp. d'Orbigny 1842
Cruziana tortworthi Crimes 1975