Bustard Cove, Benthamaspis gibberula Interval Zone (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Section 8 of Knight, 1991

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (50.7° N, 57.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° S, 46.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Benthamaspis gibberula trilobite zone, Laignet Point Member (Catoche Formation), Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; argillaceous limestone

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 195758: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 23.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Strotactinus insularis Billings 1865 trilobite
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Ischyrotoma anataphra Fortey 1979 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
"Grinnellaspis flabelliformis" = Punka flabelliformis Fortey 1979 trilobite
Uromystrum sp. Whittington 1953 trilobite
Uromystrum sp. cf. U. affine
"Grinnellaspis marginiatus" = Uromystrum marginiatus Billings 1865 trilobite
Benthamaspis gibberula Billings 1865 trilobite
Bathyurellus sp. Billings 1865 trilobite
Bathyurellus platypus Fortey 1979 trilobite
Bathyurellus abruptus Billings 1865 trilobite
Strigigenalis caudata Billings 1865 trilobite
Bolbocephalus convexus Billings 1865 trilobite
Bolbocephalus kindlei Boyce 1989 trilobite
Jeffersonia sp. Poulson 1927 trilobite
Jeffersonia timon Billings 1865 trilobite
"Jeffersonia angustimarginata" = Jeffersonia jenni Cullison 1944 trilobite
Catochia glabra Fortey 1979 trilobite
Petigurus sp. Raymond 1913 trilobite
Petigurus nero Billings 1865 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isoteloides canalis Whitfield 1886 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite