Also known as Western Port au Port Peninsula, east side of Cape St. George–Mainland road (Route Zone 21

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (48.5° N, 59.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° S, 49.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Catoche Formation (St. George Group), Cassinian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• Oepikodus communis conodont zone, Strigigenalis caudata trilobite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: D. M. Rohr, E.A. Measures, W.D. Boyce and I. Knight. 2002. Euomphalopsis and Polhemia (Gastropoda) from the Lower Ordovician Catoche Formation, western Newfoundland. Current Research (2002) Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy Geological Survey, Report 2002 2002(2):265-275 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56152: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.11.2005