Table Cove, "Isolated Limestone": 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.
Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostus longicollis (Raymond 1925)
recombined as Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis
Geragnostus fabius (Billings 1865)
Galbagnostus galba (Billings 1865)
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Styginidae
Raymondaspis reticulatus Whittington 1965
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus informal sp. 2 Dalman 1827
Illaenus gelasinus Whittington 1965
Illaenus consimilis Billings 1865
Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae
? Phaseolops sp. Whittington 1963
Trilobita - Proetida - Telephinidae
Goniophrys ? breviceps
Telephina americana Billings 1865
Trilobita - Olenida - Olenidae
Triarthrus fisheri Billings 1865
recombined as Porterfieldia fisheri
Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Miracybele mira (Billings 1865)
recombined as Cybelurus mirus
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurinella polydorus (Billings 1865)
Heliomera sol (Billings 1865)
synonym of Heliomeroides teres
Trilobita - Harpetida - Harpididae
Harpides atlanticus Billings 1865
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyxoides semicostatus (Billings 1865)
Lonchodomas normalis (Billings 1865)
Lonchodomas clavulus Whittington 1965
Trilobita - Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus affinis Billings 1865
Nileus macrops Billings 1865
Peraspis lineolata (Raymond 1925)
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Stegnopsis huttoni (Billings 1865)
Niobe quadraticaudata (Billings 1865)
Niobe morrisi (Billings 1865)
Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Robergia schlotheimi (Billings 1865)
Blosyropsis billingsi Whittington 1965
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Raymondinidae
? Ischyrophyma sp. Whittington 1963
synonym of Celmus
Ischyrophyma tumida Whittington 1965
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Leioshumardia minima Whittington 1965
Shumardia sagittula 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
Stratigraphy comments: Formation assignment based on trilobite faunal assemblage
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:nodular,gray lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: "...dark gray, thin-bedded and nodular [limestone], abundantly fossiliferous."
Environment:slope
Geology comments: Environmental interpretation of the Table Cove Formation from Stenzel et al 1990
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collectors:C. H. Kindle and H.B. Whittington Collection dates:1958, 1961
Metadata
Also known as:"Isolated limestone" locality of Raymond 1925
Database number:104862
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-02-11 07:38:59 Last modified:2012-10-28 01:16:56
Access level:the public Released:2011-02-11 07:38:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

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]