A mixed Atlantic–Pacific province Middle Ordovician graptolite fauna in western Newfoundland

A recently excavated quarry in the middle Table Head Formation (Middle Ordovician) on the Port-au-Port Peninsula, western Newfoundland, has provided a rich and varied fauna of graptolites associated with trilobites, inarticulate brachiopods, and crustacean remains. The graptolite fauna includes Atla...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Main Authors: Finney, Stanley C., Skevington, David
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1979
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Pacific
Table Head
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e79-176
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e79-176
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Summary:A recently excavated quarry in the middle Table Head Formation (Middle Ordovician) on the Port-au-Port Peninsula, western Newfoundland, has provided a rich and varied fauna of graptolites associated with trilobites, inarticulate brachiopods, and crustacean remains. The graptolite fauna includes Atlantic province species in an otherwise characteristically Pacific assemblage, thereby enabling the correlation of provincially distinct zonal classifications.

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