Loc. BPS40, Broom Point South [Tuckers Cove Mbr, Shallow Bay Fm]: Trempealeauan, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Archaeospicularia - Echidninidae
Echidnina sp. Bengtson 1986
VR category
Echidnina irregularis Won and Iams 2002
VR category
Protozoa - Archaeospicularia - Archeoentactiniidae
? Pararcheoentactinia impedia
VR category
Pararcheoentactinia reedae Won and Iams 2002
VR category
Pararcheoentactinia cf. reedae Won and Iams 2002
VR category
Protozoa - Archaeospicularia - Protoentactiniidae
Protoentactinia gracilispinosa Kozur et al. 1996
VR category
Conodonta - Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Eoconodontus notchpeakensis (Miller 1969)
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Newfoundland and Labrador
Coordinates: 49.8° North, 57.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.8° North, 86.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Furongian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 5
Key time interval: Trempealeauan Conodont zone:  Eoconodontus notchpeakensis
Age range of interval: 489.2 - 485.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Cow Head Formation:Shallow Bay Member:Tuckers Cove
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Tuckers Cove Mbr, Shallow Bay Fm of the Cow Head Gp. AGE: Franconian radiolarian assemblage RA5. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the middle part of the Tuckers Cove Mbr, lower part of the section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies preparation.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Probably W. J. Iams. REPOSITORY: National Type Collection of Invertebrate and Plant Fossils, Geological Survey of Canada.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for radiolarians and with characteristic condonts. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:90970
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology,vertebrate
Created:2009-08-27 12:33:45 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-08-27 12:33:45
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
30606. M.-Z. Won and W. J. Iams. 2002. Late Cambrian radiolarian faunas and biostratigraphy of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology 76(1):1-33 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

35329 N. P. James and R. K. Stevens. 1986. Stratigraphy and correlation of the Cambro-Ordovician Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 366:1-143 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]