Table Point, "Lower Table Head", Bed 8.12: 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 - Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus affinis Billings 1865
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
aff. Isoteloides sp. Raymond 1910
    = Stegnopsis solitarius Whittington 1965
Whittington 1965
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus marginalis Raymond 1925
Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Acidiphorus spinifer Raymond 1925
Uromystrum validum
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pseudomera barrandei (Billings 1865)
Ectenonotus westoni (Billings 1865)
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 Point
Local section:Table Point, "Lower" Local bed:560 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: Footage estimated from base of section depicted in Figure 2 of Whittington and Kindle 1963. "Lower Table Head Formation" of Whittington and Kindle 1963 = Table Point Formation of Klappa et al 1990.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
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,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:Cephalopods (including Aetheosolen, Adamsoceras, Wutinoceras, Endoceras inculare) and sponges reported from this unit ("Bed 8").
Metadata
Database number:104885
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-02-11 11:17:30 Last modified:2012-10-28 01:16:56
Access level:the public Released:2011-02-11 11:17:30
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]