An unusual mid-Cambrian faunule from St. John's Island, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Three trilobites, Hypagnostus aff. clipeus, Cotalagnostus sp. nov., and Pagetides johannis sp. nov., not previously recorded in Newfoundland, are associated with Onymagnostus cf. hybridus, H. mammillatus, Peronopsis cf. fallax minor, Paradoxides (P.) davidis davidis, P. (P.) cf. abenacus, Brunswickia (B.) cf. jaculator, B. (Jincella) sp., Agraulos sp., and some hyolithids, stenothecid molluscs and orthid, acrotretid and lingulate brachiopods in a thin limestone within dark grey, slaty mudstones of the Young's Cove Formation on St. John's Island, Fortune Bay. A stratigraphical position within the Cambrian punctuosus Zone in the upper part of the Drumian Stage is indicated. The presence of the oculate eodiscid Pagetides in late mid-Cambrian rocks, within the Avalon Tectonostratigraphical Zone, is highlighted, because the genus was previously only known associated with the much earlier Cambrian olenellid zones of Laurentia. Paradoxides (P.) cf. abenacus and the species of Brunswickia (B.) close to peregrina, respectively, provide a link with the New Brunswick mid-Cambrian and paradoxissimus successions in England and Scandinavia, whereas the specimens of Hypagnostus aff. clipeus indicate a more global significance in common with forms in the punctuosus sequences of Siberia and Australia. The St. John's Island sequence includes lithofacies and fossils typical of the Manuels River Formation preserved elsewhere in southeastern Newfoundland. This is the first recognition of such a sequence in the Young's Cove Formation of Fortune Bay on the western margin of the Avalon Tectonostratigraphical Zone.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".