Hickey Cove HC 133 (Cambrian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 2741

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.8° N, 57.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 6.7° N, 85.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Downes Point Member (Shallow Bay Formation), Sunwaptan (493.5 - 487.5 Ma)

• sample HC 133, Contracta interval, Parabolinoidid biofacies

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified limestone

• boulders derived from shelf-margin algal buildups

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Ludvigsen, S. R. Westrop, and C. H. Kindle. 1989. Sunwaptan (Upper Cambrian) trilobites of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 6:1-175 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81288: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus pseudocyclopyge
Trilobita
 Olenida - Parabolinoididae
Roksaspis turbinella, Roksaspis longifrons, Orygmaspis (Parabolinoides) billingsi n. sp.
Roksaspis turbinella Ludvigsen et al. 1989 trilobite
Roksaspis longifrons Ludvigsen et al. 1989 trilobite
Orygmaspis (Parabolinoides) billingsi n. sp. Ludvigsen et al. 1989 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpididae
Loganopeltoides "sp. A"
Loganopeltoides "sp. A" Rasetti 1945 trilobite