Green Point Section. GP 13. Bed 18 (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.7° N, 58.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° S, 60.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cordylodus proavus conodont zone, Martin Point Member (Green Point Formation), Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, green siltstone

• SHALE - green and interbedded with parallel to cross-laminated, brown-weathering siltstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Probably W. J. Iams. REPOSITORY: National Type Collection of Invertebrate and Plant Fossils, Geological Survey of Canada.

Primary reference: R. A. Cooper, G. S. Nowlan, and S. H. Williams. 2001. Global Stratotype Section and Point for base of the Ordovician System. Episodes 24(1):19-28 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203835: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for radiolarians and with characteristic condonts. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Conodonta
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Cordylodus caboti, Cordylodus proavus
Cordylodus proavus Müller 1959 conodont