Hungaia boulder bed, Broom Point North (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.8° N, 57.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° S, 60.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Symphysurina trilobite zone, Broom Point Member (Green Point Formation), Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• Local section is Broom Point North but meterage is not given in Fortey et al 1982. Collection placed at 137.1 m of section in James and Stevens 1986.

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Conglomerate deposited in slope environment (Green Point Formation) but clasts derived from inshore source.
• James and Stevens 1986: "Conglomerate--50% tabular clasts (average 2x10 cm), 40% equant clasts (average 3x3 cm)..."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. A. Fortey, D. Skevington; reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: bulk,

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 105871: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 26.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Hungaia magnifica
Hungaia magnifica Billings 1860 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Symphysurina sp.
Symphysurina sp. Ulrich 1924 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Acheilus monile
Acheilus monile Fortey 1983 trilobite