1996R017=Boyce 1996F011: Cassinian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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| Billings' second operculum | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Raphistomatidae
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Ceratopea billingsi
Yochelson 1964
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Rohr et al. 2008 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Macluritidae
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Maclurites sp.
Le Sueur 1818
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Euomphalidae
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Euomphalopsis magnus n. sp.
Rohr et al. 2002
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Rostroconchia
- Conocardiida
- Eopteriidae
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Euchasma blumenbachi
(Billings 1859)
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Rohr et al. 2008 | |||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ellesmerocerida
- Protocycloceratidae
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Protocycloceras lamarcki
(Billings 1859)
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Coordinates: | 48.5° North, 59.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.2° South, 49.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Early/Lower Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 1-2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Cassinian | Trilobite zone: | Strigigenalis caudata |
| Age range of interval: | 482.00000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | St. George | Formation: | Catoche | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Oepikodus communis conodont zone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: The St. George Group is a 500-m-thick succession of subtidal and peritidal limestone and dolostone | |
| Environment: | peritidal |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with silica |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Garden Hill, western Port au Port Peninsula, east of Hunt–Pan Canadian Petroleum of Catoche Formation, beds dipping about 10° | ||
| Database number: | 56150 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-13 21:28:41 | Last modified: | 2012-10-28 01:16:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-13 21:28:41 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15133. | D. M. Rohr, E. A. Measures, W. D. Boyce and I. Knight. 2002. Euomphalopsis and Polhemia (Gastropoda) from the Lower Ordovician Catoche Formation, western Newfoundland. Current Research (2002) Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy Geological Survey, Report 2002 2002(2):265-275 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
| 42850 | D. M. Rohr, W. D. Boyce, and E. A. Measures. 2008. The rostroconch mollusc Euchasma Billings, 1865 from the Lower Ordovician Catoche Formation, western Newfoundland. Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy, Report 08(1):79-91 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |