BPS 402, Shallow Bay Formation, Newfoundland - Westrop et. al 1996: Middle Cambrian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Baltagnostus robustus
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Newfoundland and Labrador
Coordinates: 49.8° North, 57.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.2° South, 68.6° West
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Miaolingian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 3-4
*Period:Middle Cambrian - Late/Upper Cambrian *Epoch:St. David's
*International age/stage:Solvan *Local age/stage:Delmaran
Key time interval: Middle Cambrian Zone:  P. gibbus
Age range of interval: 509 - 497 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Cow Head Formation:Shallow Bay Member:Downes Point (lower)
Local bed:Bed #4
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified packstone
Secondary lithology: lithified grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: member: coarse grained sequence of often amalgamated carbonate conglomerates. Specimens: equant casts of light-colored, bioclastic packstones and grainstones.
Environment:offshore shelf
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Specimens from boulders
Taxonomic list comments:Only includes trilobites and no other macrofossils from the Cow Head Group.
Metadata
Database number:9683
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-01-11 12:01:00 Last modified:2012-10-28 01:16:56
Access level:the public Released:2001-01-11 12:01:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

840. 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]