Western Brook Pond, south section, Unit 21 (upper) (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.8° N, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° S, 53.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paraoistodus proteus conodont zone, St. Paul's Member (Green Point Formation), Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• "late Tremadocian" (Won et al. 2007)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: nodular limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: M.-Z. Won, W. J. Iams, and K. M. Reed. 2007. Late Tremadocian radiolarian faunas and biostratigraphy of the Cow Head Group, Western Newfoundland, Canada. Journal of the Korean Earth Science Society 28(4):497-540 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234143: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 20.03.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Entactinaria - Proventocitidae
Protoproventocitum nazarovi Won et al. 2007 radiolarian
Protoproventocitum aitchisoni Won et al. 2007 radiolarian
 Archaeospicularia - Protoentactiniidae
Protoentactinia gracilispinosa Kozur et al. 1996 radiolarian
Protoentactinia transformis Won et al. 2005 radiolarian
 Archaeospicularia - Archeoentactiniidae
Pararcheoentactinia reedae Won and Iams 2002 radiolarian
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Acodontidae
Tripodus sp. Bradshaw 1969 conodont
Acodus deltatus Lindström 1955 conodont