Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (53.3° N, 60.3° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° S, 71.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bonnia-Olenellus trilobite zone, Forteau Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• The formation encompasses two series: lower series - begins stratigraphically only a few meters above the top of the underlying Bradore Sandstone; upper - biostromal series with less pronounced ""reef"" characteristics that occur and seperated from lower series by about 20m of interbedded siltstones, shales and sandstones. AGE: Waucoban; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data (= Bonnia-Olenellus zone). Further refined to Dyeran (PJW).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, burrowed, shelly/skeletal wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite, original silica

Collection methods: bulk,

• SOme of the skeletons may have been derived as washed-in material from the outside; they may be sheletons that were attatched by fleshy tissue,, but whose attatchments rotted and the skeletons fell to the sediment; they may have been soft-bodied with hard parts, and attatched within the cavities, but whose bodies rotted, thereby depositing the skeletal debris on the cavity floor (e.g. sponges and their spicules); or, of course, some of the skeletal debris may represent organisms which actually lived in the sediments.

Primary reference: D. R. Kobluk and N. P. James. 1979. Cavity-dwelling organisms in Lower Cambrian patch reefs from southern Labrador. Lethaia 12(3):193-218 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9900: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 30.01.2001, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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