section R432-7, Middle Shale Member (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (51.0° N, 56.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 6.7° N, 102.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Middle Shale Member (Forteau Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 509.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shale and siltstone

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 195929: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 31.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus thompsoni Hall 1859 trilobite
Olenellus crassimarginatus Walcott 1910 trilobite