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 terranovae Fillion and Pickerill 1990
Planolites beverleyensis Billings 1862
Planolites montanus Richter 1937
"Phycodes circinatus" = Phycodes circinatum Richter 1850
Uchirites triangularis Macsotay 1967
Rosselia socialis Dahmer 1937
Lockeia avalonensis Fillion and Pickerill 1990
Neonereites uniserialis Seilacher 1960