Cow Head Peninsula, bed 11 (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 shale

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 78096: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Sigmagraptidae
Goniograptus sp. McCoy 1876 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
"Tetragraptus fruticosus" = Tshallograptus fruticosus
"Tetragraptus fruticosus" = Tshallograptus fruticosus Hall 1858 graptolite