The Beach, Bell Island, NFLD (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Fillion and Pickerel (1990) locality E

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (47.6° N, 52.9° W: paleocoordinates 71.4° S, 43.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Placed by authors at base of Upper Tremadoc

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, ooidal, silty, sandy siltstone and lithified, burrowed, ooidal, muddy, silty shale

• On the entire set of units: "the sequence formed in a storm-dominated deltaic complex"
• Sandy siltstone, silty shale, sandstone, 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 175844: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 14.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

 Ichnofossils -
Skolithos magnus Howell 1944
Calycraterion samsonowiczi Karaszewski 1971
Monomorphichnus intersectus Fillion and Pickerill 1990
Monomorphichnus lineatus Crimes et al. 1977
Rosselia sp. Dahmer 1937
Planolites annularius Walcott 1890
Diplichnites sp. Dawson 1873
Gyrolithes saxonicus Hantzschel 1934
Helminthopsis tenuis Ksiazkiewicz 1968
Rusophycus crimesi Fillion and Pickerill 1990
Rusophycus leifeirikssoni Bergstrom 1976
Rusophycus cf. pedroanus Seilacher 1970
Rusophycus cf. dispar Linnarsson 1869
Rusophycus didymus Salter 1856
Lockeia siliquaria James 1879
Aulichnites sp. Fenton and Fenton 1937
Bergaueria prantli Ksiazkiewicz 1977
Cruziana problematica Schindewolf 1921
Cruziana semiplicata Salter 1853
Cruziana breadstoni Crimes 1975
Psammichnites gigas Torell 1868