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
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Nileus affinis
Billings 1865
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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aff. Isoteloides sp.
Raymond 1910
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= Stegnopsis solitarius
Whittington 1965
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Whittington 1965 | ||||||
Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Illaenus marginalis
Raymond 1925
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Bathyuridae
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Acidiphorus spinifer
Raymond 1925
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Uromystrum validum
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pliomeridae
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Pseudomera barrandei
(Billings 1865)
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Ectenonotus westoni
(Billings 1865)
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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] |