Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.8° N, 57.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 6.8° N, 86.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Corbinia apopsis trilobite zone, Broom Point Member (Green Point Formation), Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)
• Local section is Broom Point South but meterage not reported in Fortey et al 1982; this bed is at 177.6 m in the section measured by James and Stevens 1986.
Environment/lithology: grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. A. Fortey, D. Skevington; reposited in the ROM
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: R. A. Fortey and D. Skevington. 1980. Correlation of Cambrian-Ordovician boundary between Europe and North America: new data from western Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17(3):382-388 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 105857: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 26.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Leiobienvillia sp. Rasetti 1954 trilobite
"Bienvillia terranovica" = Leiobienvillia terranovica Rasetti 1954 trilobite
Bienvillia corax Billings 1865 trilobite | |
Lecanopyge spp. Raymond 1937 trilobite | |
"Corbinia apopsis" = Eurekia apopsis
"Corbinia apopsis" = Eurekia apopsis Winston and Nicholls 1967 trilobite | |
"Liostracinoides texanus" = Phylacterus
"Liostracinoides texanus" = Phylacterus trilobite | |
Yukonaspis kindlei trilobite |