Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.8° N, 57.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 3.4° 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 North but meterage is not given in Fortey et al 1982. Collection placed at 156.4 m of section in James and Stevens 1986.
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. A. Fortey, D. Skevington; reposited in the ROM
Collection methods: bulk,
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 105867: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 26.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
Neoagnostus aspidoides Kobayashi 1955 | |
Trilobita | |
Pseudohystricurus cf. obesus, "Hystricurus paucituberculatus" = Tulepyge paucituberculata
Pseudohystricurus cf. obesus Ross 1951 trilobite
"Hystricurus paucituberculatus" = Tulepyge paucituberculata Fortey 1983 trilobite | |
"Symphysurina brevispicata" = Symphysurina walcotti
"Symphysurina brevispicata" = Symphysurina walcotti Kindle 1929 trilobite |