Kellys Island, NFLD (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Fillion and Pickerill (1990) Site A

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (47.5° N, 53.0° W: paleocoordinates 71.4° S, 43.8° W)

When: Kellys Island Formation (Bell Island Group), Tremadoc (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• Lowest unit of Bell Island Gp.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified sandstone and lithified, massive siltstone

• Psrt of a wave dominated deltsic sequence
• Shale, siltstone, massive sandstone

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 176069: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 25.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

 Ichnofossils -
Phycodes ungulatus Fillion and Pickerill 1990
Phycodes pedum Seilacher 1955
Didymaulichnus lyelli Rouault 1850
Planolites annularius Walcott 1890
Furculosus carpathicus Roniewicz and Pienkowski 1977
Cruziana semiplicata Salter 1853