Cunningham Creek [Cunningham Creek Fm] (Silurian of Canada)

Where: New Brunswick, Canada (45.4° N, 66.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 22.2° S, 57.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cunningham Creek Formation (Mascarene Group), Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Cunningham Creek Fm of the Mascarene Group, which overlaps the Jones Creek Formation, and is probably equivalent to the Long Reach Formation. MacKenzie (1951, 1964) comprehensively mapped the Cunningham Creek area, placing the fish beds in the Jones Creek Formation, and the overlying, mainly volcanic sequence, in the Long Reach Formation. AGE: mid–Upper Silurian, probably mid-Pridoli. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, black, calcareous shale

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Calcareous nodule layer in black shale. LITHIFICATION:

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).

Primary reference: C. Burrow. 2011. A partial articulated acanthodian from the Silurian of New Brunswick, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 48:1329-1341 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161317: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2014, edited by Roy Plotnick and Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to acanthodians. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
 Thelodontida - Coelolepidae
Thelodus macintoshi2 Stetson 1928
Pteraspidomorpha
 Cyathaspidiformes - Cyathaspididae
Cyathaspis acadica2 Matthew 1886
Chondrichthyes
 Ischnacanthiformes - Acritolepidae
Nerepisacanthus denisoni n. sp. Burrow 2011 spiny fish
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Pterygotidae
"Bunodella horrida" = Acutiramus1
"Bunodella horrida" = Acutiramus1 eurypterid