Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.8° N, 57.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° S, 52.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Symphysurina trilobite zone, Broom Point Member (Green Point Formation), Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• Local section is Broom Point South but meterage not reported in Fortey et al 1982; this bed is at 184.4 m in the section measured by James and Stevens 1986.

Environment/lithology: grainstone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. A. Fortey, D. Skevington

Primary reference: R. A. Fortey, E. Landing, and D. Skevington. 1982. Cambrian-Ordovician boundary sections in the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland. In M. G. Bassett, W. T. Dean (eds.), The Cambrian-Ordovician boundary: sections, fossil distributions, and correlations. National Museum of Wales, Geological Series No. 3, Cardiff 95-129 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105854: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 26.02.2011

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