Factory Cove Mb, Bed 13, Shallow Bay Fm., Newfoundland - Robson and Pratt 2001: Early Ordovician - Middle Ordovician, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Lingulata
- Acrotretida
- Acrotretidae
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Acrotretidae indet.
Schuchert 1893
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Coordinates: | 49.9° North, 57.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 2.7° South, 84.4° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Early Ordovician - Middle Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 1-2 - Ordovician 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Ordovician - Middle Ordovician | ||
| Key time interval: | Early Ordovician - Middle Ordovician | ||
| Age range of interval: | 485.4 - 458.4 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Cow Head | Formation: | Shallow Bay | Member: | Factory Cove | Local bed: | #13 |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: limestone boulders | |
| Environment: | slope |
| Geology comments: Part of the Humber Arm allochton in which the source of the allochthonous carbonate sediment is a platform that lay to the west. | |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Fragmentation: | extreme |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | chemical,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 10771 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | P. Borkow |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-06-21 11:29:21 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-06-21 11:29:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4018. | S. P. Robson and B. R. Pratt. 2001. Cambrian and Ordovician linguliform brachiopods from the Shallow Bay Formation (Cow Heard Group), Western Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology 75(2):241-260 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow] |