Tucker Cove Mb., Shallow Bay Fm., Newfoundland - Robson and Pratt 2001 (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.9° N, 57.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 6.8° N, 85.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tucker Cove Member (Shallow Bay Formation), Sunwaptan (493.5 - 487.5 Ma)

• Approximately 60m thick and represents bed 6 from James and Stevens (1986)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, conglomeratic grainstone and lithified shale

• Part of the Humber Arm allochton in which the source of the allochthonous carbonate sediment is a platform that lay to the west.
• quartz-rich grainstone and conglomerate with minor amounts of lime mudstone, sandstone, calcareous siltstone, and shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. P. Robson and B. R. Pratt. 2001. Cambrian and Ordovician linguliform brachiopods from the Shallow Bay Formation (Cow Heard Group), Western Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology 75(2):241-260 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10769: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 21.06.2001

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Oblidae indet.