Green Head, Port au Port Peninsula, mound complex (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1397

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (48.5° N, 58.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° S, 54.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Watts Bight Formation (St. George Group), Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• lower member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• mound complex, 3 facies: Thrombolite-Renalcis-Lichenaria, Thrombolite-Lichenaria, and Renalcis-Thrombolite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. Knight, K. Azmy, W. D. Boyce and D. Lavoie. 2008. Tremadocian carbonate rocks of the Lower St. George Group, Port au Port Peninsula, western Newfoundland: lithostratigraphic setting of diagenetic, isotopic and geochemistry studies. Current Research. Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey Report 08(1):115-149 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80769: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.05.2008, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"Thrombolite" indet., ? Diphragmoceras sp.
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp.
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Lecanospira sp.
Lecanospira sp. Butts 1926 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Finkelnburgiidae
Finkelnburgia sp.
Finkelnburgia sp. Walcott 1905
Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
"Hystricurus ellipticus" = Bathyurus ellipticus
"Hystricurus ellipticus" = Bathyurus ellipticus Cleland 1900 trilobite
 Pulchrilaminida - Pulchrilaminidae
? Pulchrilamina sp.
? Pulchrilamina sp. Toomey and Ham 1967
Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Cryptolichenariidae
Amsassia sp.
Amsassia sp. Sokolov and Mironova 1959 chaetetid sponge