Port au Choix Peninsula, Catoche Fm. (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (50.7° N, 57.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° S, 50.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Catoche Formation (St. George Group), Tulean to Tulean (480.8 - 470.0 Ma)

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone and dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: S. Stouge and W. D. Boyce. 1983. Fossils of Northwestern Newfoundland and Southeastern Labrador: Conodonts and Trilobites. In R. V. Gibbons (ed.), Publications of the Mineral Development Division 83(3):1-63 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195772: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 24.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Punka flabelliformis Fortey 1979 trilobite
Benthamaspis gibberula Billings 1865 trilobite
Bathyurellus abruptus Billings 1865 trilobite
Bolbocephalus convexus Billings 1865 trilobite