1.5 km W of Ship Cove, Watts Bight Fm. ( of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (48.5° N, 58.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° S, 54.1° W)

When: Lower Member (Watts Bight Formation), Skullrockian (487.5 - 482.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; bioturbated, dolomitic, nodular, rubbly lime mudstone and wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W. D. Boyce, L. M. E. McCobb, and I. Knight. 2011. Stratigraphic studies of the Watts Bight Formation (St. George Group), Port au Port Peninsula, Western Newfoundland. Current Research 11(1):215-240 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195680: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 16.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Finkelnburgiidae
Finkelnburgia sp.
Finkelnburgia sp. Walcott 1905
Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
"Hystricurus ellipticus" = Bathyurus ellipticus
"Hystricurus ellipticus" = Bathyurus ellipticus Cleland 1900 trilobite
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Millardicurus sp.
Millardicurus sp. Adrain and Westrop 2006 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Bellefontia gyracantha
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Symphysurina myopia
Symphysurina myopia Westrop and in Landing et al 2003 trilobite