Project Geologist
Regional Geology Section
Email: dougboyce@gov.nl.ca
Boyce, W.D.
2021: A Lower Cambrian Lenaldanian Series (Stage 4 – Late Dyeran) Olenellid trilobite from the Forteau Formation (Labrador Group), Man O’War I42 Well, western Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Industry, Energy and Technology, Geological Survey, Report 21-1, pages 65-71.
2020: Bathyurus perplexus Billings, 1865: Distribution and biostratigraphic significance. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 201, pages 127.
2017: Trilobites of the Forteau Formation. In Project Summaries 2017. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, page 8.
2001: Field Trip A3. Classic Cambrian trilobite localities of the Conception Bay South area, Avalon Peninsula, eastern Newfoundland. Geological Association of Canada–Mineralogical Association of Canada, Guidebook, 45 pages.
1999: Macrofloral-based age determination of the Saltwater Cove Formation (Anguille Group), Fisher Hills bluestone quarry. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Mines and Energy, Geological Survey Division, Report 99-1, pages 311-316.
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. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Mines, Geological Survey, Report 89-2, 175 pages.
1987: Cambrian–Ordovician trilobite biostratigraphy in central Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Mines and Energy, Mineral Development Division, Report 87-1, pages 335-341.
1985: Biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental significance of newly discovered palaeoniscid fish and vascular plant remains from the Snakes Bight Formation (Anguille Group) near Codroy, southwestern Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Mines and Energy, Mineral Development Division, Report 85-1, pages 71-73.
Boyce, W.D. and Dickson, W.L.
2006: Recent fossil finds in the Indian Islands Group, central Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 06-1, pages 221-231.
Boyce, W.D., Knight, I. and Brake, D.
2009: A Middle Cambrian mass-kill recorded in the Penguin Cove Formation, western Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 09-1, pages 111-122.
Boyce, W.D., Knight, I., Rohr, D.M., Williams, S.H. and Measures, E.A.
2000: The upper St. George Group, western Port au Port Peninsula: Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, depositional environments and regional implications. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Mines and Energy, Geological Survey, Report 2000-1, pages 101-125.
Boyce, W.D., McCobb, L.M.E. and Knight, I.
2013: Continuing stratigraphic and trilobite studies of the Watts Bight Formation (St. George Group), western Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 13-1, pages 205-222.
2011: Stratigraphic studies of the Watts Bight Formation (St. George Group), Port au Port Peninsula, western Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 11-1, pages 215-240.
Boyce, W.D. and Reynolds, K.
2008: The Ediacaran fossil Aspidella terranovica Billings, 1872 from St. John’s Convention Centre Test Pit CjAe-33. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 08-1, pages 55-61.
Boyce, W.D. and Stouge, S.
1997: Trilobite and conodont biostratigraphy of the St. George Group at Eddies Cove West, western Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Mines and Energy, Geological Survey, Report 97-1, pages 183-200.
Boyce, W.D. and Williams, S.H.
1995: One and a half centuries of paleontological research: A selective bibliography of Newfoundland and Labrador fossils. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 95-1, pages 299-321.
Fensome, R., Williams, G., Achab, A., Clague, J., Corrigan, D., Monger, J. and Nowlan, G. (Boyce, W.D., Contributor)
2014: Four Billion Years and Counting: Canada’s Geological Heritage. Edited by G. Nowlan. Nimbus Publishing and the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 402 pages.
Knight, I. and Boyce, W.D.
2015: Geological guide to the Bird Cove Region, Great Northern Peninsula. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open File NFLD/3239, 50 pages.
2014: Lithostratigraphy and correlation of measured sections, Middle Cambrian Hawke Bay Formation, western Port au Port Peninsula. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Open File 012B/06/0626.
2009: The Reluctant Head Formation, Goose Arm Thrust Stack, Newfoundland Humber Zone: New observations on the stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and implications for the evolution of the Cambrian–Ordovician shelf. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 09-1, pages 183-201.
1987: Lower to Middle Cambrian terrigenous-carbonate rocks of Chimney Arm, Canada Bay: Lithostratigraphy, preliminary biostratigraphy and regional significance. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Mines and Energy, Mineral Development Division, Report 87-1, pages 359-365.
Knight, I., Boyce, W.D., Skovsted, C.B. and Balthasar, U.
2017: The Forteau Formation, southern Labrador, the Great Northern Peninsula and Gros Morne National Park, western Newfoundland. In Project Summaries 2017. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, page 12.
2017: The Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation, southern Labrador and Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland: Lithostratigraphy, trilobites, and depositional setting. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, St. John’s, Occasional Paper 2017-01, 72 pages.
Knight, I., Hicks, L. and Boyce, W.D.
2007: The anatomy of a Lower Paleozoic petroleum system, Port au Port Peninsula and a geological cruise in the Northern Fjords of the Bay of Islands. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Minister’s Field Guide (June 7th and 8th, 2007) prepared for The 2nd International Symposium on Oil and Gas Resources in Western Newfoundland (June 5–8, 2007), 36 pages.
McCobb, L.M.E., Boyce, W.D. and Knight, I.
2011: Correlation of Lower Ordovician (Ibexian) faunas in north-eastern Greenland and western Newfoundland – new trilobite and lithostratigraphic data. In Ordovician of the World. Edited by J.C. Gutiérrez-Marco, I. Rábano and D. García-Bellido. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, pages 339-346.
McCobb, L.M.E., Boyce, W.D., Knight, I. and Stouge, S.
2014: Early Ordovician (Skullrockian) trilobites of the Antiklinalbugt Formation, northeast Greenland, and their biostratigraphic significance. Journal of Paleontology, Volume 88, Number 5, pages 982-1018.
2014: Lower Ordovician trilobites from the Septembersø formation, North-East Greenland. Alcheringa, Volume 38, Issue 4, pages 575-598.
Norford, B.S., with contributions by Abbott, J.G., Achab, A., Armstrong, D.K., Asselin, E., Bezys, R.K., Bolton, T.E., Bourque, P.-A., Boyce, W.D., Cecile, M.P., Chatterton, B.D.E., Copper, P., de Freitas, T., Dixon, O.A., Ferri, F., Frey, R.C., Fyffe, L.R., Harrison, J.C., Haidl, F.M., Holland, C.H., Jin, J., Lenz, A.C., Long, D.G.F., McCracken, A.D., McLean, R.A., Melchin, M.J., Morrow, D.W., Nowlan, G.S., O’Brien, F.H.C., Okulitch, A.V., Orchard, M.J., Quinn, L., Rigby, J.K., Soufiane, A., Stearn, C.W., Trettin, H.P., van Staal, C., Williams, S.H. and Young, G.A.
1997: Correlation chart and biostratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of Canada. International Union of Geological Sciences, Publication Number 33, 77 pages.
Rohr, D.M., Measures, E.A. and Boyce, W.D.
2019: New Early and Middle Ordovician gastropods from western Newfoundland. In Current Research. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, Report 19-1, pages 175-186.
Skovsted, C.B., Knight, I., Balthasar, U. and Boyce, W.D.
2017: Depth related brachiopod faunas from the lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of southern Labrador and western Newfoundland, Canada. Palaeontologia Electronica, Article 20.3.54A, pages 1-52. https://doi.org/10.26879/775
Stouge, S. and Boyce, W.D.
1983: Fossils of northwestern Newfoundland and southeastern Labrador: Conodonts and trilobites. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Mines and Energy, Mineral Development Division, Report 83-3, 55 pages.
Stouge, S., Boyce, W.D., Christiansen, J.L., Harper, D.A.T. and Knight, I.
2012: Development of the Lower Cambrian – Middle Ordovician carbonate platform: North Atlantic Region. In The Great American Carbonate Bank: The Geology and Economic Resources of the Cambrian–Ordovician Sauk Megasequence of Laurentia. Edited by J.R. Derby, R.D. Fritz, S.A. Longacre, W.A. Morgan and C.A. Sternbach. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 98, pages 597-626.