US And Canadian Fossil Sites -- Data for NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

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Location	County	State/Province	Directions,Notes	Age	Formation	Fossils	Comments	Reference	Lat-Long
Grand Banks	-	NL		Mesozoic		Dinosaur bones found during oil explorations	NL0001			\|	,
Great Northern Peninsula	-	NL		Paleozoic		fossils	NL0002			\|	,
Western Newfoundland	-	NL		Cambrian	Blow Me Down Brook	Oldhamia	NL0003			\|	,
Bell Island	Avalon South-Conception Bay South	NL		Ordovician		Fossils	NL0004			\|	,
Bell Island	Avalon South-Conception Bay South	NL	Cambrian brachiopods and Trilobites in oolitic hematite extensively mined on E side of island.	Cambrian		brachiopods,trilobites	NL0005			\|	,
Bell Island	Avalon South-Conception Bay South	NL	In cliffs of cross bedded sandstone in back of ferry terminal	Ordovician		shell fragments-ichnofossils	NL0006			\|	,
Conception Bay	Avalon South-Conception Bay South	NL				gastropod Scenella	NL0007			\|	,
Conception Bay	Avalon South-Conception Bay South	NL	Newfoundland	Cambrian Lower	Manuels River	Cambrian Lower Avalonian fossils are found in Shales along the banks of the Manuels River near its mouth at Conception Bay. Collecting is permitted (as of 1995) but discouraged. Suggestion: Examine the rocks and fossils here,then seek other exposures	NL0008			\|	,
Kelly's Island	Avalon South-Conception Bay South	NL				trace fossils -Cruziana	NL0009			\|	,
Killigrews	Avalon South-Conception Bay South	NL	In abandoned quarries 7-8km down Red Bridge Rd from junction of routes 2 and 60.	Cambrian Middle	Manuels River	Abundant trilobites	NL0010			\|	,
Killigrews	Avalon South-Conception Bay South	NL	In abandoned quarries in black shale	Cambrian		trilobites,plantlike fossils	NL0011			\|	,
Killigrews	Avalon South-Conception Bay South	NL	In shale -- site reported closed to collecting	Cambrian	Chamberlains Brook	Badulesia	NL0012			\|	,
Manuels River	Avalon South-Conception Bay South	NL	In black shales at Route 60 Bridge over Manuels River and downstream for a kilometer in various beds-- No collecting	Cambrian Middle	Manuels River	Abundant trilobites	NL0013			\|	,
Manuels River	Avalon South-Conception Bay South	NL	In exposures 8.5km NE of Killigrew. Nature Preserve-no collecting	Cambrian Middle	Chamberlains Brook\|Fossil Brook\|Manuels River	Avalonian trilobites	NL0014			\|	,
Red Bridge Road	Avalon South-Conception Bay South	NL	8.5km SW of Manuels River	Cambrian Middle	Fossil Brook	Avalonian trilobites-Bailiaspis	NL0015			\|	,
St John Bay	Avalon South-St Johns	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas{5}	NL0016			\|	,
Branch	Avalon South-St Marys Bay	NL	In black shales 1km along shore toward Branch Head			trilobites	NL0017			\|	,
Branch	Avalon South-St Marys Bay	NL	In green shales along shore about 300m from road			trilobites	NL0018			\|	,
Branch	Avalon South-St Marys Bay	NL	On Avalon Peninsula in green,red,and black shales in cliffs	Cambrian		trilobites	NL0019			\|	,
Branch Cove	Avalon South-St Marys Bay	NL	Well known Cambrian section accessible at Low Tide	Cambrian Middle		Avalonian trilobites - Paradoxides	NL0020			\|	,
Gaskiers	Avalon South-St Marys Bay	NL	In limestones	Cambrian		Crinoid fragments,Archeocyathids	NL0021			\|	,
Bonavista Peninsula	Bonavista Bay-Bonavista Peninsula	NL				Avalonian fossils	NL0022			\|	,
Burin Peninsula	Burin Peninsula-Grand Bank	NL				Avalonian fossils	NL0023			\|	,
Burin Peninsula	Burin Peninsula-Grand Bank	NL	at Snooks Brook in red limestone	Cambrian Middle	Fossil Brook	distorted Avalonian trilobites?	NL0024			\|	,
Fortune Head	Burin Peninsula-Grand Bank	NL	Type exposure for Pre-Cambrian-Lower Cambrian Boundary in E North America	Cambrian Lower	Chapel Island	Trichophycus pedum,small shelly fauna{10}	NL0025			\|	,
Little Dantzig Cove	Burin Peninsula-Grand Bank	NL	in heavily indurated phosphatic limestone	Cambrian Middle	Fossil Brook	Avalonian trilobites?	NL0026			\|	,
Little Dantzig Cove Brook	Burin Peninsula-Grand Bank	NL	calcareous rock	Precambrian	Brigus	Small Shelly fossils{10}	NL0027			\|	,
Little Dantzig Cove Brook	Burin Peninsula-Grand Bank	NL	sandstones	Cambrian	Brigus	rare trilobite fragments{10}	NL0028			\|	,
Anguille Mountains	Labrador-Central and West	NL				Fish fossils	NL0029			\|	,
Deer Lake Basin	Labrador-Central and West	NL				fish fossils	NL0030			\|	,
Knob Lake	Labrador-Central and West	NL	in Redmond Iron deposits	Cretaceous		Plants--Insects	NL0031			\|	,
Marion Lake	Labrador-Central and West	NL		Proterozoic	Denault	Stromatolites	NL0032			\|	,
Northern Labrador	Labrador-North Coast	NL		Proterozoic	Mugford Group	Microfossils,coal of bacterial origin	NL0033			\|	,
West Bay	Labrador-North Coast	NL	Center Quarry	Ordovician	Table Head\|Goose Tickle Group	Graptolites	NL0034			\|	,
L'Anse-Armour	Labrador-Straits	NL	near lighthouse 4 km along L'Anse-Armour turnoff between Forteau and L'Anse-au-Loop - Reef fossils in sea cliffs	Cambrian		Salterella?.	NL0035			\|	,
St Pauls Inlet	Northern Peninsula-Bonne Bay	NL		Ordovician	Cow Head	diverse graptolites	NL0036			\|	,
Western Brook Pond	Northern Peninsula-Bonne Bay	NL		Ordovician	Cow Head	diverse graptolites	NL0037			\|	,
The Tablelands	Northern Peninsula-Bonne Bay?	NL				fossils	NL0038			\|	,
Boat Harbor	Northern Peninsula-St Anthony	NL		Ordovician	Catoche	thrombolites,algae,coral,trilobites,cephalopods,gastropods	NL0039			\|	,
Boat Harbour	Northern Peninsula-St Anthony	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas	NL0040			\|	,
Boat Harbour	Northern Peninsula-St Anthony	NL		Ordovician Lower	Boat Harbour	Catoche	NL0041			\|	,
Cape Norman	Northern Peninsula-St Anthony	NL		Ordovician	Catoche	thrombolites,algae,coral,trilobites,cephalopods,gastropods	NL0042			\|	,
Cape Norman	Northern Peninsula-St Anthony	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas{5}	NL0043			\|	,
Hare Bay	Northern Peninsula-St Anthony	NL		Ordovician	Catoche	thrombolites,algae,coral,trilobites,cephalopods,gastropods	NL0044			\|	,
Hare Bay	Northern Peninsula-St Anthony	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas{5}	NL0045			\|	,
Hare Bay	Northern Peninsula-St Anthony	NL	at Brent Islands	Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas,Isoteloides,Strigigenalis{5}	NL0046			\|	,
Pistolet Bay	Northern Peninsula-St Anthony	NL		Ordovician	Catoche	thrombolites,algae,coral,trilobites,cephalopods,gastropods	NL0047			\|	,
Pistolet Bay	Northern Peninsula-St Anthony	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas{5}	NL0048			\|	,
Pistolet Bay	Northern Peninsula-St Anthony	NL	at Schooner Island and Burnt Island	Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas,Isoteloides,Strigigenalis,Kawina{5}	NL0049			\|	,
Spudgels Cove	Northern Peninsula-St Anthony	NL		Ordovician	American Tickle	Graptolites	NL0050			\|	,
Barbace Pt	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe North	NL	Port au Choix peninsula	Ordovician Lower	Boat Harbour\|Catoche	Trilobites	NL0051			\|	,
Brig Bay	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe North	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas{5}	NL0052			\|	,
Catoche Pt	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe North	NL	Port au Choix peninsula	Ordovician Lower	Catoche	Trilobite faunas - Isoteloides,Strigigenalis{5}	NL0053			\|	,
Eddies Cove West	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe North	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas,Isoteloides,Strigigenalis{5}	NL0054			\|	,
Eddies Cove West	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe North	NL		Ordovician Lower	Boat Harbour	Catoche	NL0055			\|	,
Flowers Cove	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe North	NL	S of Flowers Cove exits on small road at Straits Elementary - in dolostone at Seal Ledges	Cambrian		Thrombolites	NL0056			\|	,
Hawkes Bay	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe North	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas{5}	NL0057			\|	,
Hawkes Bay	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe North	NL	Seaward side of Hwy just N of Cambrian algae and other fossils in Limestone expose in closed zinc mine.	Cambrian		?	NL0058			\|	,
Ingornachoix Bay	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe North	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas{5}	NL0059			\|	,
Mount Saint Margaret quarry	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe North	NL	8.8 km S of rt430-432 junction 1.9 km on road to Three Mile Pond Provincial Park on left in 12 meters shale face	Cambrian		Olenellus to 3cm	NL0060			\|	,
Eddies Point	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe North[?]	NL	In local exposures to West	Cambrian Middle-Upper	March Point	Occasional trilobites	NL0061	Can't actually identify Eddies Pt,but assume it is adjacent to Eddies Cove	www.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/ geosurvey/publications/cr2005/boyce.pdf	\|	,
Daniel's Harbor	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe South	NL		Ordovician	Catoche	thrombolites,algae,coral,trilobites,cephalopods,gastropods	NL0062			\|	,
Table Head	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe South	NL	Complete section of Table Head Group at Ecological Preserve 14km NE of Daniels Harbor	Ordovician	Table Head	diverse Graptolites	NL0063			\|	,
Table Head	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe South	NL	Portland Creek in Chazy age Ordovician sediments	Ordovician		Trilobite Ceraurus	NL0064			\|	,
Table Mountain	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe South	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas{5}	NL0065			\|	,
Table Point	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe South	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas{5}	NL0066			\|	,
Greenhead	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe South?	NL	Port au Port			Cephalopods -Lecanospira	NL0067			\|	,
Red Island	Northern Peninsula-St Barbe South?	NL	On Red Island off the Port au Port Peninsula in sandstone near the top of 300m of Devonian terrestrial rock	Devonian Upper	Red Island Road	some primitive branched plants;25 species of spores-Emphanisporites,Dictyotriletes,Dibolisporites	NL0094		http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nrc/cjes/2004/00000041/00000005/art00007	\|	,
Burnt Island	Notre Dame Bay-Exploits	NL	in limestones and shales at Ecological preserve	Ordovician		40 species of trilobites	NL0068			\|	,
Lushes Bight	Notre Dame Bay-NDB West	NL		Ordovician		graptolites	NL0069			\|	,
New World Island	Notre Dame Bay-Twillingate	NL		Paleozoic Lower		abundant fossils	NL0070			\|	,
New World Island	Notre Dame Bay-Twillingate	NL		Silurian-Devonian		fossils	NL0071			\|	,
Trinity Island	Trinity Bay-Trinity North	NL	At Fosters Point in limestones	Cambrian Middle	Fossil Brook	Avalonian trilobites?	NL0072			\|	,
Random Island	Trinity Bay-Upper Trinity North	NL				Avalonian fossils	NL0073			\|	,
Hopeall Head	Trinity Bay-Upper Trinity South	NL	On East and West sides of Trinity Bay in heavily indurated limestones	Cambrian Middle	Fossil Brook	Avalonian Trilobites	NL0074			\|	,
Stephenville	West Coast-Bay St George	NL	N in outcrops in Phillips Brook and North Brook Anticlines	Cambrian		trilobites and brachiopods	NL0075		www.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/ geosurvey/publications/cr2005/boyce.pdf	\|	,
Bay of Islands	West Coast-Bay of Islands	NL	In regional sand and shale sequences at 20 localities	Cambrian Lower	Blow Me Down Brook	Four species of Oldhamia	NL0076			\|	,
Goose Arm	West Coast-Bay of Islands	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas{5}	NL0077			\|	,
Black cove	West Coast-Port au Port	NL		Ordovician	Table Head\|Goose Tickle Group	Graptolites	NL0078			\|	,
Campbell's Cove	West Coast-Port au Port	NL	Area exposures at Campbell's Cove (19km E of Marches Point) and East past Felix Cove	Cambrian	Petit Jardin	trilobites	NL0079		www.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/ geosurvey/publications/cr2005/boyce.pdf	\|	,
Cape St George	West Coast-Port au Port	NL	1.1km E	Cambrian	Petit Jardin	trilobites	NL0080		www.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/ geosurvey/publications/cr2005/boyce.pdf	\|	,
Man_O_War Cove	West Coast-Port au Port	NL	1km E	Cambrian	Petit Jardin	trilobites	NL0081		www.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/ geosurvey/publications/cr2005/boyce.pdf	\|	,
Marches Point	West Coast-Port au Port	NL	In local exposures to West	Cambrian Middle-Upper	March Point	Occasional trilobites	NL0082		www.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/ geosurvey/publications/cr2005/boyce.pdf	\|	,
Port Au Port Peninsula	West Coast-Port au Port	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas{5}	NL0083			\|	,
Port Au Port Peninsula	West Coast-Port au Port	NL	at The Gravels	Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas - Isoteloides,Strigigenalis{5}	NL0084			\|	,
Port-au-Port	West Coast-Port au Port	NL	Newfoundland,Port-au-Port (West of Stephenville on hwy 480). Fossils including Conularia are reported from the Aguathuna Quarry.	Ordovician		?	NL0085			\|	,
Canada Bay	White Bay-Northern Peninsula East	NL		Ordovician Lower		Trilobite faunas - Kawina{5}	NL0086			\|	,
Canada Bay	White Bay-Northern Peninsula East	NL	In local exposures to West,at Cloud Rapids,and Chimney Arm	Cambrian Middle	March Point	Occasional trilobites	NL0087		www.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/ geosurvey/publications/cr2005/boyce.pdf	\|	,
-	[?]	NL	Devonian plants reported from unknown location in Newfoundland	Devonian		?	NL0092			\|	,
-	[?]	NL	In fossilized reef in Western Newfoundland with large colonial animals	Ordovician	Long Point (NL)	Bryozoa-Monotrypa,Diplotrypa	NL0093			\|	,
Caribou Creek	[?]	NL		Ordovician	Table Point\|Cape Cormorants	Graptolites	NL0088	Probably on the West Coast of Newfoundland,but can't identify where		\|	,
Isle La Motte	[?]	NL				Cephalopods -Endoceras	NL0089	There may be an Isle La Motte near St Johns but likely this is a misplaced reference to Vermont.		\|	,
Petite Jardin	[?]	NL	In local exposures to West	Cambrian Middle-Upper	Petit Jardin	trilobites,inarticulate brachiopods	NL0090		www.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/ geosurvey/publications/cr2005/boyce.pdf	\|	,
Youngs Brook	[?]	NL	0.2km E	Cambrian	Petit Jardin	trilobites	NL0091		www.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/ geosurvey/publications/cr2005/boyce.pdf	\|	,

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