2000RB06E, Bustard Cove to Back Arm, Catoche Formation (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as 2000F029 = ECW-049 of Boyce and Stouge (1997) = 1999F096 = 1986F120

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

• coordinate stated in text

When: Strigigenalis caudata trilobite zone, Catoche Formation (St. George Group), Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)

• "29.92 to 30.02 m above the base of the formation"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; wackestone and packstone

• "wackestone-packstone-well-bedded, gastropods, dolomitic burrow mottling; packstone, intraclastic and rich in gastropods; upper 72 cm poorly exposed."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. M. Rohr, W. D. Boyce, and E. A. Measures. 2008. The rostroconch mollusc Euchasma Billings, 1865 from the Lower Ordovician Catoche Formation, western Newfoundland. Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy, Report 08(1):79-91 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195784: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 24.08.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Murchisonia sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail
 Eogastropoda - Sinuopeidae
Euconia sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Eopteriidae
Euchasma blumenbachi Billings 1859
Trilobita
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Ischyrotoma anataphra Fortey 1979 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Bathyurellus abruptus Billings 1865 trilobite
"Grinnellaspis flabelliformis" = Punka flabelliformis Fortey 1979 trilobite
Jeffersonia timon Billings 1865 trilobite
Catochia ornata Fortey 1979 trilobite
Petigurus nero Billings 1865 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Strotactinus insularis Billings 1865 trilobite