Cow Head Peninsula, bed 6: Tremadoc, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Hungaia magnifica (Billings 1860)
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Anisograptidae
Staurograptus sp.
Pterobranchia - Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Newfoundland and Labrador
Coordinates: 49.9° North, 57.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.4° North, 82.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian-Ordovician
Key time interval: Tremadoc
Age range of interval: 485 - 477.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Cow Head
Local section:Cow Head Local bed:6
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified conglomerate
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: conglomerate band overlain by thin bedded limestones with shale
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:78090
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-01-28 02:35:56 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-28 02:35:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
26333.1% 17240H. 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]