Table Point, "Middle Table Head", 185 feet: Whiterockian, Canada
collected by C. H. Kindle and H.B. Whittington 1958, 1961
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
- Harpetida
- Harpididae
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Harpides atlanticus
Billings 1865
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Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Raphiophoridae
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Lonchodomas cf. normalis
(Billings 1865)
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= Lonchodomas normalis
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
"Ampyx" cf. semicostatus
Billings 1865
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= Ampyxoides semicostatus
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
Endymionia schucherti
Raymond 1920
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Nileidae
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Nileus scrutator
Billings 1865
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= Nileus affinis
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
Nileus macrops
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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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
informal asaphid morrisi
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= Niobe morrisi
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Remopleurididae
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Robergia schlotheimi
(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
- Proetida
- Proetidae
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? Phaseolops sp.
Whittington 1963
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Proetida
- Telephinidae
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Telephina cf. americana
Billings 1865
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= Telephina americana
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Olenida
- Olenidae
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Triarthrus cf. fisheri
Billings 1865
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= Triarthrus fisheri
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
recombined as Porterfieldia fisheri | |||||||
Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Encrinuridae
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"Cybele" mira
(Billings 1865)
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= Miracybele mira
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
recombined as Cybelurus mirus | |||||||
Agnostida
- Metagnostidae
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"Trinodus" galba
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= Galbagnostus galba
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
"Trinodus" fabius
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= Geragnostus fabius
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
Geragnostus longicollis
(Raymond 1925)
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recombined as Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis | |||||||
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 |
Key time interval: | Whiterockian |
Age range of interval: | 471.80000 - 457.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Table Head | Formation: | Table Cove | ||
Local section: | Table Point | Local bed: | 185 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: | fine,black,gray lithified muddy "limestone" |
Secondary lithology: | black lithified "shale" |
Lithology description: "...dark-gray or black, fine-grained, muddy limestones in beds 2-8 inches thick, interbedded with black shale." | |
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: | 104813 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2011-02-10 09:41:56 | Last modified: | 2012-10-28 01:16:56 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-02-10 09:41:56 |
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] |