B3890, Green Head (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (48.5° N, 58.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° S, 52.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Drepanoistodus concavus conodont zone, Barbace Cove Member (Boat Harbour Formation), Tulean (480.8 - 474.9 Ma)

• Drepanoistodus concavus conodont zone & Strigigenalis brevicaudata trilobite zone. This is late Jeffersonian, at the base of the Arenig. I put in Arenig so that it will be binned.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: D. M. Rohr, W.D. Boyce, and I. Knight. 2003. Ordovician gastropods from Western Newfoundland. Current Research (2003) Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy Geological Survey 2003:127-136 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56147: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Lecanospira compacta Salter 1859 snail
 Eogastropoda - Sinuopeidae
Euconia etna Billings 1865 snail