BPS 496, Broom Point South boulder: Tremadocian, Canada
collected by C. H. Kindle

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Tulepyge paucituberculata n. sp. (Fortey 1983)
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Newfoundland and Labrador
Coordinates: 49.8° North, 57.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.3° North, 82.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Early Ordovician
Stage: Tremadocian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 1
Key time interval: Tremadocian Trilobite zone:  Symphysurina
Age range of interval: 485.4 - 477.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Cow Head Formation:Green Point Member:Broom Point
Stratigraphy comments: Boulder from James and Stevens 1986 Unit 57 [=B1 boulder bed of Fortey et al 1982]; this bed is at 184.4 m in the section measured by James and Stevens 1986, and approximately 40 m above the base of the Broom Point Member according to Adrain and Westrop 2006.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: Deposited in offshore/slope environment (Green Point Formation) but source is closer to shore.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collectors:C. H. Kindle
Metadata
Database number:106423
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-03-15 09:03:10 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-15 09:03:10
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
35519. J. M. Adrain and S. R. Westrop. 2006. New genus of dimeropygid trilobites from the earliest Ordovician of Laurentia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51(3):541-550 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]