Eastern Whale Island, Catoche Fm.: Tulean - Blackhillsian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Bisonocerida - Piloceratidae
Piloceras sp. Salter 1859
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818
Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Benthamaspis conica Fortey 1979
Bathyurellus abruptus Billings 1865
Strigigenalis caudata (Billings 1865)
Petigurus nero (Billings 1865)
Bolbocephalus convexus (Billings 1865)
Jeffersonia angustimarginata Boyce 1989
synonym of Jeffersonia jenni
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isoteloides peri Fortey 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Newfoundland
Coordinates: 50.9° North, 57.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.0° South, 50.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
Key time interval:Tulean - Blackhillsian
Age range of interval:480.30000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:St. George Formation:Catoche
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows "limestone"
Lithology description: "burrowed limestones, thrombolitic boundstones and parted limestones"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:195779
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Created:2018-08-24 08:14:13 Last modified:2018-08-24 08:14:13
Access level:the public Released:2018-08-24 08:14:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
66635. W. D. Boyce. 1985. Cambrian-Ordovician biostratigraphic investigations, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland. Current Research 85(1):60-70 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]