Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (50.7° N, 57.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° S, 46.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Laignet Point Member (Catoche Formation), Cassinian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)
• Oepikodus communis conodont zone, Benthamaspis gibberula trilobite zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Primary reference: D. M. Rohr, E.A. Measures, W.D. Boyce and I. Knight. 2001. Early Ordovician gastropods of the Barbace Cove Member (Boat Harbour Formation) and Catoche Formation, western Newfoundland. Current Research (2001) Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy Geological Survey, Report 2001 2001(1):113-126 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 56643: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritoma acrea Billings 1865 snail | |
Malayaspira canningense Yu 1993 snail |