Also known as South Joggins; Coal Measures; Head of Bay of Fundy

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.7° N, 64.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° S, 7.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Joggins Formation (Cumberland Group), Westphalian A (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)

• From Steen (1934): "top of the Joggins formation...Division 4, Section XV., Coal-group 15 of the Joggins section given in Dawson's 'Acadian Geology,' 1868, pp. 156-178." From Lyell (1853): The fossils are from Bed 5 of a 25 ft section, composed of 7 beds. Bed 5 is approximately 600 ft below the main coal, "King's Vein".

•Original entry for Local Section name was "South Joggins"; for Bed/horizon "bed 5". In Steen (1934) a "bed 5" is not mentioned in any way. Also, in papers published before and after Lyell's "On the Remains of a Reptile..." (1953) a different numbering is applied to the Joggins Section. Thus, it is more appropriate to follow the stratigraphic terminology used in Dawson (1878, Acadian Geology, 3rd edn.; 1882, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., 173), Steen (1934, see description above) and Carroll (1964). Coal-group 15 consists of 3 beds with a total thickness of 10 ft 6 in. (Dawson, 1878) (TL)

•Original entry for chronostratigraphy was simply "Westphalian". Currently, the Cumberland Group is considered eqivalent to Westphalian A (Langsettian) (see e. g. Holmes et al., 1989, J. Vert. Paleont. 19; or Falcon-Lang et al. 2006, J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 163).(TL)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; gray sandstone and coal

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: coalified

Collected by J. W. Dawson, C. Lyell, among others; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

• RM = Redpath Museum of McGill Unversity, Montreal

Primary reference: M. C. Steen. 1934. The amphibian fauna from the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1934:465-504 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28069: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 22.01.2003, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Matthew Clapham and Bethany Allen

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