Table Point, "Middle Table Head", 265 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
unclassified
informal cybelinid indet.
Whittington 1965
Trilobita - Proetida - Telephinidae
Telephina cf. americana Billings 1865
    = Telephina americana Billings 1865
Whittington 1965
Trilobita - Olenida - Olenidae
Triarthrus cf. fisheri Billings 1865
    = Triarthrus fisheri Billings 1865
Whittington 1965
recombined as Porterfieldia fisheri
Trilobita - Harpetida - Harpididae
Harpides atlanticus Billings 1865
Whittington 1965
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
"Ampyx" cf. semicostatus Billings 1865
    = Ampyxoides semicostatus Billings 1865
Whittington 1965
Lonchodomas cf. normalis (Billings 1865)
    = Lonchodomas normalis Billings 1865
Whittington 1965
Trilobita - Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus scrutator Billings 1865
    = Nileus affinis Billings 1865
Whittington 1965
Nileus macrops Billings 1865
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Lachnostoma aff. huttoni
    = Stegnopsis huttoni Billings 1865
Whittington 1965
"Niobella" quadraticaudatus
    = Niobe quadraticaudata Billings 1865
Whittington 1965
Niobe morrisi (Billings 1865)
Whittington 1965
Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Robergia schlotheimi (Billings 1865)
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia sp. Billings 1862
    = Shumardia sagittula Whittington 1965
Whittington 1965
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:Whiterockian
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:265 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:104857
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-02-11 06:23:08 Last modified:2012-10-28 01:16:56
Access level:the public Released:2011-02-11 06:23:08
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]