West Isthmus Bay section, Barbace Cove member: Floian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Petigurus nero (Billings 1865)
Jeffersonia angustimarginata Boyce 1989
synonym of Jeffersonia jenni
Bolbocephalus convexus (Billings 1865)
Peltabellia crassimarginata (Cullison 1944)
recombined as Strigigenalis crassimarginata
Bathyurellus abruptus Billings 1865
Benthamaspis ? sp. Poulsen 1946
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isoteloides peri Fortey 1979
Cephalopoda - Bisonocerida - Piloceratidae
Cassinoceras wortheni (Billings 1865)
Piloceras wortheni
Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Protocycloceratidae
Protocycloceras lamarcki (Billings 1859)
Cephalopoda - Tarphycerida - Estonioceratidae
Pycnoceras apertum Hyatt 1894
Cephalopoda - Tarphycerida - Tarphyceratidae
Tarphyceras prematurum Hyatt 1894
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Raphistomatidae
Pleurotomaria normani Billings 1865
synonym of Ceratopea canadensis
Ceratopea cf. capuliformis Oder 1932
Ceratopea sp. cf. C. capuliformis
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Lytospira sp. Koken 1896
Malayaspira affinis Billings 1865
[Malayaspira affines]
Lecanospira sp. Butts 1926
Ophileta sp. Vanuxem 1842
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma sp. (Salter 1859)
Strophomenata - Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Tritoechia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Newfoundland County:Port au Port Peninsula
Coordinates: 48.5° North, 58.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.5° South, 49.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
Stage:Floian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
Key time interval:Floian
Age range of interval:477.70000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:St. George Formation:Boat Harbour Member:Barbace Cove
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology:stromatolitic,thrombolitic grainstone
Lithology description: shale beds, dolomitic lime wackestone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: Cyclic peritidal carbonates
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:195746
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger
Created:2018-08-22 06:08:38 Last modified:2018-08-22 06:36:39
Access level:the public Released:2018-08-22 06:08:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

66623. W. D. Boyce and I. Knight. 2010. Macropaleontological investigation of the Upper St. George Group, West Isthmus Bay to East Bay section, Port au Port Peninsula, Western Newfoundland. Current Research 10(1):219-44 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]