Where: Newfoundland, Canada (48.6° N, 59.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 36.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Orthograptus ruedemanni - Geniculograptus pygmaeus graptolite zone, Winterhouse Formation (Longpoint Group), Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)
• Overlies Lourdes formation. Spans Orthograptus ruedemanni, Climacograptus spiniferus and Geniculograptus pygmaeus graptolite zones.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal limestone and silty shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: W. T. Dean. 1979. Trilobites from the Long Point Group (Ordovician), Port au Port Peninsula, southwestern Newfoundland. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 290:1-53 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 192321: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.03.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Flexicalymene verecunda n. sp.
Flexicalymene verecunda n. sp. Dean 1979 trilobite Flexicalymene sp. of Whittington and Kindle 1969:655
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