Locality 10, Newfoundland, Lourdes Formation, Port au Port Peninsula (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (48.8° N, 58.8° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 39.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lourdes Formation (Long Point Group), Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; calcareous sandstone and calcareous shale

• Shallowing upward sets in deepening upward sequence.
• Calcareous sandstones, calcareous shales, calcarenites, and micrites

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Stait. 1988. Nautiloids of the Lourdes Formation (Middle Ordovician), Port au Port Peninsula, western Newfoundland. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir 44:61-77 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27427: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 05.12.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
Actinoceras gradatum
 Actinocerida - Gonioceratidae
Gonioceras minor
Gonioceras minor Flower 1952