Boyce 2009 GAC-NL Meeting Abstract

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Newly identified outcrops of the Lower Ordovician St. George Group exposed on a logging road north of Bonne Bay Little Pond contain brachiopods, ...
A NEW HYSTRICURID TRILOBITE FROM THE ST. GEORGE GROUP -- BONNE BAY LITTLE POND AREA, WESTERN NEWFOUNDLAND Boyce, W. Douglas, Geological Survey, Department of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 8700, St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 4J6 Newly identified outcrops of the Lower Ordovician St. George Group exposed on a logging road north of Bonne Bay Little Pond contain brachiopods, cephalopods, gastropods, trace fossils, and a trilobite, identified as Hystricurus sp. nov. This identification is assessed in the light of the recent extensive reclassification of the Family HYSTRICURIDAE Hupé, 1953 by Adrain and others. .