Cow Head Peninsula, bed 6 ( of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.9° N, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° S, 52.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cow Head Group, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate and lithified limestone

• conglomerate band overlain by thin bedded limestones with shale

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 78090: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp.
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Anisograptidae
Staurograptus sp.
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Hungaia magnifica
Hungaia magnifica Billings 1860 trilobite