Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.8° N, 57.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 3.3° N, 82.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Symphysurina trilobite zone, Broom Point Member (Green Point Formation), Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)
• Local section is Broom Point South but meterage not reported in Fortey et al 1982; this bed is at 184.4 m in the section measured by James and Stevens 1986.
Environment/lithology: grainstone and mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. A. Fortey, D. Skevington
Primary reference: R. A. Fortey, E. Landing, and D. Skevington. 1982. Cambrian-Ordovician boundary sections in the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland. In M. G. Bassett, W. T. Dean (eds.), The Cambrian-Ordovician boundary: sections, fossil distributions, and correlations. National Museum of Wales, Geological Series No. 3, Cardiff 95-129 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 105854: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 26.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
Pseudagnostus sp. Jaekel 1909 | |
Neoagnostus aspidoides Kobayashi 1955 | |
Trilobita | |
Parabolinella cf. hecuba Walcott 1924 trilobite | |
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"Hystricurus paucituberculatus n. sp." = Tulepyge paucituberculata2
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"Symphysurina brevispicata" = Symphysurina walcotti Kindle 1929 trilobite | |
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