St. Pauls Inlet SPI 88 (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Reef 2741

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.9° N, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° S, 52.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shallow Bay Formation (Cow Head Group), Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• sample SPI 88, uppermost Tuckers Cove Member?, Apopsis interval = lowermost Ordovician, Kathleenella-Yukonaspis biofacies

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified limestone

• boulders derived from shelf-margin algal buildups

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Ludvigsen, S. R. Westrop, and C. H. Kindle. 1989. Sunwaptan (Upper Cambrian) trilobites of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 6:1-175 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81290: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.06.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Ptychopleurites johnsoni n. sp. trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Norwoodiidae
 Ptychopariida - Plethopeltidae
Plethopeltis concavus n. sp. trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
 Ptychopariida - Phylacteridae
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
 Asaphida - Eurekiidae
Eurekia ulrichi trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Apatokephaloides oxleyi n. sp. trilobite
 Olenida - Dokimokephalidae
Bellaspidella parallela Ludvigsen et al. 1989 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpididae