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Douglas Boyce
Job Title
Project Geologist
Regional Geology Section
Provincial Paleontologist
Contact Information
Email: dougboyce@gov.nl.ca
Tel: 709-729-2163
Fax: 709-729-4270
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Survey Projects
Current
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Ordovician trilobite taxonomy, biostratigraphy and biofacies of the
St. George Group and the Table Head Group, western Newfoundland.
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Late Tremadoc trilobites of non-Laurentian affinity from the
allochthonous Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland (with Dr. S.H.
Williams of Memorial University of Newfoundland).
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Cambrian trilobite taxonomy, biostratigraphy and biofacies of the
Labrador Group and the Port au Port Group, western Newfoundland.
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Cambrian-Ordovician trilobite taxonomy, biostratigraphy and biofacies
of the Cooks Brook Formation and the Weasel Group, western
Newfoundland.
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Ordovician and Silurian trilobite and bivalve faunas of Newfoundland.
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Curation of two decades worth of paleontological collections.
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Compilation of paleontological/biostratigraphical database for
Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Construction of Paleontology World Wide Web Page.
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| Research Interests
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Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, paleoecology and faunal provincialism of
trilobites and bivalves.
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Carboniferous fish and plants.
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Computer applications in paleontology.
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Selected Publications
Boyce, W.D. and Williams, S.H.
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1995: One and a half centuries of paleontological research: a
selective bibliography of Newfoundland and Labrador fossils.
Newfoundland Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey,
Report 95-1, pages 299-321.
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Williams, S.H., Barnes, C.R., O'Brien, F H.C. and Boyce, W.D.
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1994a: A proposed global stratotype for the second series of the
Ordovician System: Cow Head Peninsula, western Newfoundland.
Ordovician News, Number 11, pages 25-31.
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1994b: A proposed global stratotype for the second series of the
Ordovician System: Cow Head Peninsula, western Newfoundland.
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, Volume 42, pages 219-231.
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Williams, S.H., Boyce, W.D. and Colman-Sadd, S.P.
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1992: A new Lower Ordovician (Arenig) faunule from the Coy Pond
Complex, central Newfoundland, and a refined understanding of the
closure of the Iapetus Ocean. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences,
Volume 29, pages 2046-2057.
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Boyce, W.D.
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1989: Early Ordovician trilobite faunas of the Boat Harbour and
Catoche formations (St. George Group) in the Boat Harbour - Cape
Norman area, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland.
Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy, Geological Survey
Branch, Report 89-3, 169 pages.
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1988: Trip A8. Cambrian trilobite faunas on the Avalon Peninsula,
Newfoundland. Geological Association of Canada/Mineralogical
Association of Canada/Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists,
Fieldtrip Guidebook, 77 pages.
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Williams, S.H., Boyce, W.D. and James, N.P.
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1987: Graptolites from the Lower-Middle Ordovician St. George and
Table Head groups, western Newfoundland, and their correlation with
trilobite, graptolite, brachiopod and conodont zones. Canadian
Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 24, pages 456-470.
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Stouge, S. and Boyce, W.D.
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1983: Fossils of northwestern Newfoundland and southeastern
Labrador: conodonts and trilobites. Newfoundland Department of
Mines and Energy, Mineral Development Division, Report 83-3, 55
pages.
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