Also known as Cape Bon Ami
Where: New Brunswick, Canada (48.1° N, 66.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° S, 16.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Dalhousie Formation, Helderbergian to Helderbergian (419.2 - 407.6 Ma)
• "Bed 11 of the Dalhousie formation's coastal section (Clarke, 1909)."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous shale
•SEP: environmental call here is impossible without additional information and I have not found a good source yet
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: May be a subset of Collection number 593 (Dalhousie Shale), but that collection does not include Cloudella, which is said here to be locally abundant.
Primary reference: J. M. Clarke. 1909. Early Devonic history of New York and eastern North America. Part 2. New York State Museum Memoirs 9(2):1-255 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14199: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 23.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Lingulata | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Euchelicerata | |
"Pterygotus atlanticus" = Pterygotus anglicus
"Pterygotus atlanticus" = Pterygotus anglicus Agassiz 1844 eurypterid | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite |