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

• 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

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.