Hickey Cove HC 202 (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.8° N, 57.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 6.8° N, 86.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dunderbergia trilobite zone, Downes Point Member (Shallow Bay Formation), Steptoean (497.0 - 493.5 Ma)

• Boulders from bed 14 of Broom Point North-Hickey Cove section of James and Stevens 1986.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified conglomerate

• Boulders with fossil represent shallow subtidal (shelf) facies; conglomerate is debris flow shed from shelf margin.
• Carbonate conglomerate or breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. H. Kindle and H. B. Whittington in the 1950s-60s

Primary reference: S. R. Westrop and J. D. Eoff. 2012. Late Cambrian (Furongian; Paibian, Steptoean) agnostoid arthropods from the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology 86(2):201-237 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127448: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 15.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

• Only agnostid trilobites reported
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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus cf. idalis, Pseudagnostus cf. ampullatus
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Acmarhachis kindlei n. sp., Acmarhachis whittingtoni, Homagnostus cf. obesus, Homagnostus cf. alaskensis
Acmarhachis kindlei n. sp. Westrop and Eoff 2012
Acmarhachis whittingtoni Westrop and Eoff 2012