Daniel's Harbor boulders: 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
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Pterobranchia
- Graptoloidea
- Climacograptidae
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Climacograptus sp.
Hall 1865
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aff. Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi
(Lapworth 1976)
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Pterobranchia
- Graptoloidea
- Dichograptidae
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? Skiagraptus sp.
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Didymograptus sp.
McCoy 1851
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Pterobranchia
- Graptoloidea
- Glossograptidae
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Glossograptus cf. holmi
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Agnostida
- Metagnostidae
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Geragnostus fabius
(Billings 1865)
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Telephinidae
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Telephina americana
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Illaenus gelasinus
Whittington 1965
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Styginidae
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Raymondaspis reticulatus
Whittington 1965
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Trilobita
- Olenida
- Olenidae
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Triarthrus fischeri
Billings 1865
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Shumardiidae
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Shumardia sp.
Billings 1862
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= Shumardia sagittula
Whittington 1965
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Nileidae
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Nileus ? affinis
Billings 1865
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Nileus macrops
Billings 1865
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
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? Nileus lacunosa
Whittington 1965
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Peraspis lineolata
(Raymond 1925)
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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? Stegnopsis huttoni
(Billings 1865)
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Niobe quadraticaudata
(Billings 1865)
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Niobe morrisi
(Billings 1865)
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Remopleurididae
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Blosyropsis billingsi
Whittington 1965
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Robergia schlotheimi
(Billings 1865)
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Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Raphiophoridae
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Anisonotella glacialis
(Billings 1865)
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Endymionia schucherti
Raymond 1920
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Ampyxoides semicostatus
(Billings 1865)
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Coordinates: | 50.2° North, 57.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 28.6° South, 42.7° 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 - 457 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Table Head | Formation: | Table Cove | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: Formation assignment based on faunal assemblage ("Middle Table Head" of Whittington and Kindle 1963 = Table Cove Formation of Klappa et al 1980). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray "limestone" |
| Lithology description: "The conglomerate...includes many flat angular slabs of dark-gray limestone and some large blocks of interbedded, thin, dark limestone and shale." Slabs are fossiliferous (trilobites, graptolites). | |
| Environment: | slope |
| Geology comments: Environment based on interpretation of Table Cove Formation by 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: | 104868 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-02-11 09:18:29 | Last modified: | 2012-10-28 01:16:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-02-11 09:18:29 |
| 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] |