Freshwater Cove (North), Bell Island, NFLD (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Fillion and Pickerill site G

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (47.7° N, 52.9° W: paleocoordinates 65.9° S, 35.5° W)

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

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, massive, bioturbated, sandy sandstone

• offshore-bar; part of a storm dominated deltaic sequence
• massive orthoquartzite; 79 m thick

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 176011: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 21.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

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 Ichnofossils -
Heimdallia chatwini, Bergaueria prantli, Teichichnus nodosus, Cochlichnus anguineus, Imponoglyphus torquendus
Heimdallia chatwini Bradshaw 1981
Bergaueria prantli Ksiazkiewicz 1977
Teichichnus nodosus Fillion and Pickerill 1990
Cochlichnus anguineus Hitchcock 1858