WRI 615B, White Rock Inlet (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.0° N, 55.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° S, 67.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: P. gibbus - P. punctuosus zone, Downes Point (lower) Member (Shallow Bay Formation), Marjumian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• Kindle Zone 3 (preliminary, agnostoid-based evaluation by co-author) JA: correlates with Utah zones (see Fig. 6) that are entirely Middle Cambrian according to Gradstein et al. 2004.

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•Now would be Topazan-Marjumian (PJW).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, carbonaceous conglomerate

• coarse grained sequence of often amalgamated carbonate conglomerates.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Specimens from boulders.

Primary reference: S. R. Westrop, R. Ludvigsen, and C. H. Kindle. 1996. Marjuman (Cambrian) agnostoid trilobites of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology 70(5):804-829 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9643: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 15.11.2000

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Taxonomic list

• Only includes trilobites and no other macrofossils from the Cow Head Group.
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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
? Kormagnostus copelandi
? Kormagnostus copelandi Westrop et al. 1996
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus parvifrons
Hypagnostus parvifrons Linnarsson 1869