Schooner Island, Boat Harbour Fm. (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (51.6° N, 55.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° S, 47.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Upper Member (Boat Harbour Formation), Canadian (485.4 - 457.3 Ma)

• Upper member of the Boat Harbour Fm.

Environment/lithology: limestone and dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W. D. Boyce. 1986. Ordovician biostratigraphic investigations, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland. Current Research 86(1):161-168 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196382: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 11.09.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isoteloides peri Fortey 1979 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Bolbocephalus convexus, "Jeffersonia angustimarginata" = Jeffersonia jenni, "Peltabellia knightii" = Strigigenalis knighti, "Bolbocephalus stevensi" = Strigigenalis stevensi, Strigigenalis brevicaudata
Bolbocephalus convexus Billings 1865 trilobite
"Jeffersonia angustimarginata" = Jeffersonia jenni Cullison 1944 trilobite
"Peltabellia knightii" = Strigigenalis knighti Boyce 1983 trilobite
"Bolbocephalus stevensi" = Strigigenalis stevensi Boyce 1989 trilobite
Strigigenalis brevicaudata Boyce 1989 trilobite