Cow Head Peninsula, bed 13 (Ordovician of Canada)

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

• Paleocoordinates: 9.5° S, 88.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cow Head Group, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 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 78098: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Isograptidae
Isograptus sp. Moberg 1892 graptolite
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Trigonograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite