Table Point, "Middle Table Head", 50 feet: Chazyan, Canada
collected by C. H. Kindle and H.B. Whittington 1958, 1961
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Agnostida
- Metagnostidae
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"Trinodus" galba
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= Galbagnostus galba
Billings 1865
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Raymondinidae
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Ischyrophyma tumida n. sp.
Whittington 1965
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Remopleurididae
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"Remopleurides" panderi
Billings 1865
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Lachnostoma aff. huttoni
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= Stegnopsis huttoni
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
"Niobella" quadraticaudatus
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= Niobe quadraticaudata
Billings 1865
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Nileidae
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Nileus macrops
Billings 1865
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Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Raphiophoridae
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Lonchodomas clavulus
Whittington 1965
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Lonchodomas cf. normalis
(Billings 1865)
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= Lonchodomas normalis
Billings 1865
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Telephinidae
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Telephina cf. americana
Billings 1865
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= Telephina americana
Billings 1865
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Styginidae
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Raymondaspis sp.
Pribyl 1948
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= Raymondaspis reticulatus
Whittington 1965
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Illaenus consimilis
Billings 1865
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pliomeridae
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Pseudomera barrandei
(Billings 1865)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
Coordinates: | 50.4° North, 57.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 28.5° South, 42.6° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | ||
10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 2-4 | ||
Key time interval: | Chazyan | Conodont zone: | Histiodella kristinae |
Age range of interval: | 470.00000 - 457.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Table Head | Formation: | Table Cove | ||
Local section: | Table Point | Local bed: | 50 ft | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Footage estimated from Figure 3 of Whittington and Kindle 1963 and confirmed from reported stratigraphic ranges in Whittington 1965. Table Cove Formation (Klappa et al 1980) = "Middle Table Head Formation" of Whittington and Kindle 1963. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | rubbly,gray lithified "limestone" |
Lithology description: "The lowest 60 feet is thin-bedded, rubbly, dark-gray limestones, much of which shows evidence of having been broken or moved by slumping". | |
Environment: | slope |
Geology comments: Environmental interpretation from Stenzel et al 1990 |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
Collection methods: | bulk,mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | GSC | ||
Collectors: | C. H. Kindle and H.B. Whittington | Collection dates: | 1958, 1961 |
Taxonomic list comments:Brachiopods, ostracods also present in Table Cove Formation, but less abundant than trilobites. |
Metadata
Database number: | 104805 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2011-02-10 08:42:53 | Last modified: | 2012-10-28 01:16:56 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-02-10 08:42:53 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
35067. | H. B. Whittington and C. H. Kindle. 1963. Middle Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland. Geological Society America Bulletin 74:745-758 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] |
Secondary references:
35079 | H. B. Whittington. 1965. Trilobites of the Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 132(4):275-441 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] |