Village Cove (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (49.5° N, 54.8° W: paleocoordinates 57.5° S, 33.5° W)

When: Pygodus serra - Pygodus anserinus conodont zone, Cobbs Arm Formation, Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• Overlies Summerford Group and Underlies Caradocian Shales. (From Stouge 1980)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. B. Neuman. 1976. Early Ordovician (Late Arenig) brachiopods from Virgin Arm, New World Island, Newfoundland. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 261:11-61 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185948: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.05.2017

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Porambonitidae
Porambonitidae "gen. and sp. indet." Ulrich and Cooper 1936
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830
 Orthida - Productorthidae
 Orthida - Ranorthidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Strophomenida - Bimuriidae
aff. Bimuria sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
 Strophomenida - Taffiidae
? Taffia sp. Butts 1926
Ahtiella paucirugosa Neuman 1976
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Lingulata
 Siphonotretida - Siphonotretidae
Multispinula sp. Rowell 1962