Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.3° N, 65.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° S, 73.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ptychagnostus gibbus zone, Downes Point Member (Shallow Bay Formation), Solvan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)

• Boulder #261 is from the Zacanthoidid-Pagetia Biofacies. While this monograph deals with the Kindle Zone 1, fauna of the Kindle Zones 2-5 can be found in Westrop et. al 1996. The Downes Point Member is about 100m thick and the general paleoenvironment is a shelf edge/upper slope environment which transported fossils as debris flows forming a deep water sediment apron..

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified grainstone and lithified packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: Not all boulders were assignable to a biofacies and only trilobites were described, however other taxa are not known to be omitted since there is no mention of them in the text. The trilobites described here are part of the C. H. Kindle Collection at the Geological Survey of Canada.

Primary reference: G. A. Young and R. Ludvigsen. 1989. Mid-Cambrian trilobites from the lowest part of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 392:1-28 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10813: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 27.06.2001

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