Cow Head Peninsula, beds 9/10 (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.9° N, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° S, 46.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cow Head Group, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78095: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia sp.
Shumardia sp. Billings 1862 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp.
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
aff. Remopleuridiella sp., aff. Praepatokephalus sp.
aff. Remopleuridiella sp. Ross 1951 trilobite
aff. Praepatokephalus sp. Lochman 1964 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Colobinion sp.
Colobinion sp. Whittington 1961 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp.
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
aff. Benthamaspis sp., Bathyurellus sp., Petigurus sp., Bolbocephalus sp.
aff. Benthamaspis sp. Poulsen 1946 trilobite
Bathyurellus sp. Billings 1865 trilobite
Petigurus sp. Raymond 1913 trilobite
Bolbocephalus sp. Whitfield 1890 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostus sp.
Geragnostus sp. Howell 1935