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

• Paleocoordinates: 7.5° N, 95.8° W (Wright 2013)

When: Ptychagnostus gibbus trilobite zone, Downes Point (lower) Member (Shallow Bay Formation), Marjumian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• Kindle Zone 2 (preliminary, agnostoid-based evaluation by co-author) JA: correlates with Utah zones (see Fig. 6) that are entirely Middle Cambrian according to Gradstein et al. 2004.

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•Now would be Topazan (PJW).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone and lithified grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Specimens from boulders

Primary reference: S. R. Westrop, R. Ludvigsen, and C. H. Kindle. 1996. Marjuman (Cambrian) agnostoid trilobites of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology 70(5):804-829 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9691: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 11.01.2001

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