96R-BP, Black Point, Port Riche Peninsula (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (50.7° N, 57.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.2° S, 42.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Histiodella tableheadensis conodont zone, Spring Inlet Member (Table Point Formation), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• Kanoshian; Histiodella tableheadensis conodont zone of Stouge (1984)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, dolomitic wackestone and lime mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: D. M. Rohr and E.A. Measures. 2001. Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian) gastropods of western Newfoundland: Macluritoidea and Euomphaloidea. Journal of Paleontology 75(2):284-294 [S. Holland/S. Holland/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56141: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Malayaspira speciosa Billings 1865 snail
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
"Monitorella crenulata" = Palliseria crenulata
"Monitorella crenulata" = Palliseria crenulata Billings 1865 snail