Gull Island South Head, Bell Island (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Fillion and Pickerill (1990) locality H

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (47.7° N, 52.9° W: paleocoordinates 65.9° S, 35.6° W)

When: Dominion Formation (Bell Island Group), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified ironstone

• Offshore bar-complex
• oolitic ironstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: D. Fillion and R. K. Pickerill. 1990. Ichnology of the Upper Cambrian? to Lower Ordovician Bell Island and Wabana groups of eastern Newfoundland, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 7:1-119 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175994: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 20.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

 Ichnofossils -
Cruziana sp. d'Orbigny 1842
Cruziana goldfussi Rouault 1850
Cruziana barriosi Baldwin 1977
Planolites montanus Richter 1937
Planolites terranovae Fillion and Pickerill 1990
Planolites beverleyensis Billings 1862
Uchirites triangularis Macsotay 1967
Rosselia socialis Dahmer 1937
Lockeia avalonensis Fillion and Pickerill 1990
"Phycodes circinatus" = Phycodes circinatum Richter 1850
Neonereites uniserialis Seilacher 1960