Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.9° N, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° S, 68.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Downes Point Member (Shallow Bay Formation), Arcadian (509.0 - 498.4 Ma)

• Approximately 100m thick. Many of the boulder clasts in the conglomerate appear to have been reworked from older sediments. A number of Middle Cambrina taxa were recovered from clasts in beds believed to be Sunwaptan in age. Note: Represents beds 1-5 from James and Stevens (1986), however fossils found only in beds 3-5. AGE: Arcadian; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified conglomerate and lithified 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 10768: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 21.06.2001

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