Kindle boulder #357, Shallow Bay Fm, Downes Point Mb, - Young and Ludvigsen 1989: Solvan, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
? Tomagnostus sp. Howell 1935
3 specimens
Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Peronopsis mariae
3 specimens
Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Pagetia skraelingi
5 specimens
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Olenoides foveolatus
2 specimens
Ogygopsis klotzi (Rominger 1887)
8 specimens
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Bathyuriscus terranovensis Young and Ludvigsen 1989
21 specimens
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Eoptychoparia convexa
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Newfoundland and Labrador
Coordinates: 49.3° North, 65.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.0° North, 101.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 3
*Period:Middle Cambrian *Epoch:St. David's
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Solvan
Key time interval: Solvan Zone:  Ptychagnostus gibbus
Age range of interval: 510 - 504.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Cow Head Formation:Shallow Bay Member:Downes Point
Local bed:Boulder #357
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The biofacies for Boulder #357 is not able to be determined. While this monograph deals with the Kindle Zone 1, fauna of the Kindle Zones 2-5 can be found in Westrop et. al 1996. The Downes Point Member is about 100m thick and the general paleoenvironment is a shelf edge/upper slope environment which transported fossils as debris flows forming a deep water sediment apron..
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:peloidal lithified lime mudstone
Secondary lithology: lithified packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The Onchocephalites biofacies has a lithology of peloidal lime mudstone and packstone.
Environment:slope
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,recrystallized
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Encrustation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Not all boulders were assignable to a biofacies and only trilobites were described, however other taxa are not known to be omitted since there is no mention of them in the text. The trilobites described here are part of the C. H. Kindle Collection at the Geological Survey of Canada.
Metadata
Database number:10850
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-06-27 11:54:53 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2001-06-27 11:54:53
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

4030. G. A. Young and R. Ludvigsen. 1989. Mid-Cambrian trilobites from the lowest part of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 392:1-28 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]