ammonites
Locality 6, Newfoundland, Lourdes Formation, Port au Port Peninsula (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (48.7° N, 58.9° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 39.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lourdes Formation (Long Point Group), Blackriveran (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; calcareous sandstone and calcareous shale

• Shallowing upward sets in deepening upward sequence.
• Calcareous sandstones, calcareous shales, calcarenites, and micrites

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Stait. 1988. Nautiloids of the Lourdes Formation (Middle Ordovician), Port au Port Peninsula, western Newfoundland. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir 44:61-77 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27430: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 05.12.2002