Cow Head Peninsula, bed 12 (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.9° N, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 42.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cow Head Group, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. B. Whittington. 1968. Zonation and correlation of Canadian and Early Mohawkian series. in E. Zen, ed., Studies of Appalachian geology, northern and marine 49-60 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78097: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
"Selenoharpes sp." = Scotoharpes
"Selenoharpes sp." = Scotoharpes Lamont 1948 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Kawina sp. Barton 1916 trilobite
Ceraurinella sp. Cooper 1953 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pseudomera cf. barrandei Billings 1865 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Lloydia sp. Vogdes 1893 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Telephina sp. Marek 1952 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
"? Bathyurina sp." = Jeffersonia, aff. Benthamaspis sp.
"? Bathyurina sp." = Jeffersonia Poulson 1927 trilobite
aff. Benthamaspis sp. Poulsen 1946 trilobite
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Ischyrotoma sp. Raymond 1925 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
aff. Eorobergia sp. Cooper 1953 trilobite
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Stegnopsis sp. Whittington 1965 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus cf. scrutator Billings 1865 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostus sp. Howell 1935