Cow Head Peninsula, bed 14 (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 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 78099: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
"Bathyurellus nitidus" = Punka nitidus, Uromystrum sp.
"Bathyurellus nitidus" = Punka nitidus Billings 1865 trilobite
Uromystrum sp. Whittington 1953 trilobite
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Ischyrotoma twenhofeli Raymond 1925 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Raymondaspis sp. Pribyl 1948 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Raymondinidae
"Ischyrophyma sp." = Celmus
"Ischyrophyma sp." = Celmus Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Endymionia cf. schucherti Raymond 1920 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
Apatolichas jukesi Billings 1865 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
? Kawina sp. Barton 1916 trilobite
Kawina arnoldi Whittington 1963 trilobite