Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (50.7° N, 57.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° S, 49.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Boat Harbour Formation (St. George Group), Jeffersonian (485.4 - 470.0 Ma)
• Logan's F and G. PJW: This is Boat Harbour formation now.
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, original aragonite, replaced with calcite
Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1942. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, Part I: Nautilicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 37:1-157 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98438: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 06.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Litoceras calciferum Billings 1865 | |
Pycnoceras apertum Hyatt 1894
Pycnoceras calciferiforme Hyatt 1894
Aphetoceras americanum Hyatt 1894
Deltoceras planum Hyatt 1894 |