Cow Head Peninsula, bed 8a (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.9° N, 57.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 2.7° S, 84.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cow Head Group, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. B. Whittington. 1968. Zonation and correlation of Canadian and Early Mohawkian series. in E. Zen, ed., Studies of Appalachian geology, northern and marine 49-60 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78092: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida -
Agnostida indet.
Agnostida indet. Salter 1864
Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
cf. Benthamaspis sp., Bolbocephalus sp., ? Petigurus sp.
cf. Benthamaspis sp. Poulsen 1946 trilobite
Bolbocephalus sp. Whitfield 1890 trilobite
? Petigurus sp. Raymond 1913 trilobite
 Corynexochida -
Illaenina indet.
Illaenina indet. Jaanusson 1959 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
cf. Apatokephalus sp., Remopleurides sp.
cf. Apatokephalus sp. Brögger 1896 trilobite
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Protopresbynileus sp.
Protopresbynileus sp. Hintze 1954 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Raymondinidae
cf. Glaphurina sp., "? Ischyrophyma sp." = Celmus
cf. Glaphurina sp. Ulrich 1930 trilobite
"? Ischyrophyma sp." = Celmus Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardiidae indet.
Shumardiidae indet. Lake 1907 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp.
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Odontopleurida -
Odontopleurida indet.
Odontopleurida indet. Whittington 1959 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
? Pliomeroides sp.
? Pliomeroides sp. Harrington and Leanza 1957 trilobite