Mount St. Margaret quarry, Upper Limestone Member (Cambrian of Canada)

Also known as MSM

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (51.0° N, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° S, 71.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Bonnia - Olenellus trilobite zone, Upper Limestone Member (Forteau Formation), Dyeran (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: limestone and dolomitic limestone

• "Archeocyathid and carbonate rubble in dolostone mix"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: I. Knight, W. D. Boyce, C. B. Skovsted and U. Balthasar. 2017. The Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation, southern Labrador and Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland: Lithostratigraphy, trilobites, and depositional setting. Geological Survey 1:1-72 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195906: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 30.08.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
"Olenellus transitans" = Paedeumias transitans
"Olenellus transitans" = Paedeumias transitans Walcott 1910 trilobite