Black Cove, "bed 4": 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
- Proetida
- Telephinidae
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Telephina sp.
Marek 1952
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= Telephina americana
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
Carolinites sp.
Kobayashi 1940
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Trilobita
- Olenida
- Olenidae
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Triarthrus fisheri
Billings 1865
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recombined as Porterfieldia fisheri | |||||||
Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Raphiophoridae
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"Ampyx" semicostatus
Billings 1865
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= Ampyxoides semicostatus
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
Anisonotella glacialis
(Billings 1865)
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Endymionia sp.
Billings 1865
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Remopleurididae
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Robergia schlotheimi
(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 | ||||||
informal asaphid morrisi
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= Niobe morrisi
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
"Niobella" quadraticaudatus
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= Niobe quadraticaudata
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Nileidae
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Nileus sp.
Dalman 1827
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Peraspis lineolata
(Raymond 1925)
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
Agnostida
- Metagnostidae
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"Trinodus" fabius
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= Geragnostus fabius
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
Coordinates: | 48.6° North, 58.7° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 29.9° South, 44.1° 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 | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Formation assignment based on faunal assemblage ("Middle Table Head Formation" of Whittington and Kindle 1963 = Table Cove Formation of Klappa et al 1980) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "30+ feet of limestones in thin beds, interbedding upwards with increasing thickness of dark 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 methods: | bulk,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | GSC | ||
Collectors: | C. H. Kindle and H.B. Whittington | Collection dates: | 1958, 1961 |
Metadata
Database number: | 104864 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2011-02-11 08:19:09 | Last modified: | 2012-10-28 01:16:56 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-02-11 08:19:09 |
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] |