Green Point Section. GP 06. Bed 18 (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.7° N, 58.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 6.8° N, 86.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eoconodontus notchpeakensis conodont zone, Martin Point Member (Green Point Formation), Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, green siltstone

• SHALE - green and interbedded with parallel to cross-laminated, brown-weathering siltstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Probably W. J. Iams. REPOSITORY: National Type Collection of Invertebrate and Plant Fossils, Geological Survey of Canada.

Primary reference: N. P. James and R. K. Stevens. 1986. Stratigraphy and correlation of the Cambro-Ordovician Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 366:1-143 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203838: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for radiolarians and with characteristic condonts. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Conodonta
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Eoconodontus notchpeakensis
Eoconodontus notchpeakensis Miller 1969 conodont