Random Island (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (48.1° N, 53.6° W: paleocoordinates 70.7° S, 43.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Clarenville Formation, Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. A. Fortey and R. M. Owens. 1991. The Early Ordovician trilobite Beltella. Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society 49:69-79 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 223757: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 27.11.2021

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Beltella depressa" = Leptoplastides depressus
"Beltella depressa" = Leptoplastides depressus Salter In Murchinson 1859 trilobite