Redmond Formation
The Redmond Formation is a geologic formation in Newfoundland and Labrador. It preserves fossils dating back to the mid-Cretaceous. It was a thin and restricted unit traced for in a single mine in Labrador, overlying Paleoproterozoic rocks, with large amounts of rubble, probably as a result of graben subsidence within the Labrador Trough. Argillite facies within the formation have produced a diverse flora and insect assemblage.
Fossil content
Animals
[Mesoraphidiidae]
Ephemeroptera">Mayfly">Ephemeroptera
Palaeoleontidae">Antlion">Palaeoleontidae
Susumaniidae
Coleoptera">Beetle">Coleoptera
- Coleoptera indet.
Labradorocoleidae
[Cupedidae]
- Cupedidae indet.
- Haliplidae indet.
- Peltodytes sp.
[Tettigarctidae]
[Dictyoptera]
Plants
- Andromeda sp.
- * A. novaecaesarae
- * A. parlatorii
- ‘Aralia’ groenlandica
- Araliopsoides cretacea
- Celastrophyllum sp.
- * C. albaedomus
- * C. brittonianum
- Cissites sp.
- Crassidenticulum sp.
- Daphnophyllum dakotense
- ‘Densinervum’ kauli
- Dicotylophyllum sp.
- Diospyros primaeva
- Dryandroides lanceolata
- Dryandroides sp.
- Ficus berthoudi
- Liriodendron simplex
- Liriodendropsis simplex
- Magnolia
- *Magnolia sp.
- *Magnolia amplifolia
- Menispermites sp.
- *M. obtusiloba
- *M. trilobatus
- Platanus sp.
- *P. heerii
- *P. shirleyensis
- Salix newberryana
- Sassafras acutilobum
- ''‘Sterculia’ lugubris''