Eddies Cove West, Leiostegium proprium Interval Zone (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Section 4 of Knight, 1991

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (50.8° N, 57.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° S, 51.9° W)

When: Leiostegium proprium trilobite zone, Lower Member (Boat Harbour Formation), Demingian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; stromatolitic, thrombolitic grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W. D. Boyce and S. Stouge. 1997. Trilobite and Conodont Biostratigraphy of the St. George Group, Eddies Cove west area, Western Newfoundland. Current Research 97(1):183-200 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195754: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 23.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
"Paraplethopeltis seelyi" = Bolbocephalus seelyi
"Paraplethopeltis seelyi" = Bolbocephalus seelyi Whitfield 1889 trilobite
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Parahystricurus smithiae Boyce 1989 trilobite
Hystricurus deflectus Heller 1954 trilobite
Hystricurus oculilunatus Ross 1951 trilobite
Hillyardina levis Boyce 1989 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Leiostegium proprium Boyce 1989 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Tesselacauda sp. Ross 1951 trilobite
Tesselacauda sp. cf. T. depressa