Beachy Cove, Bed 9 [Factory Cove Mbr, Shallow Bay Fm] (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.9° N, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° S, 48.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Isograptus victoriae graptolite zone, Factory Cove Member (Shallow Bay Formation), Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)

• AGE: Arenig; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data (= Isograptus victoriae zone).

•JA: reassigned to the Floian because the victoriae zone is latest Floian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified lime mudstone

• Part of the Humber Arm allochton in which the source of the allochthonous carbonate sediment is a platform that lay to the west.
• lime mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10770: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 21.06.2001

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Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Paterulidae
Paterula subcircularis Cooper 1956
2 ventral valves and 4 dorsal valves
Paterula polita Cooper 1956
2 ventral valves and 1 dorsal valve