Where: New Brunswick, Canada (48.0° N, 66.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 13.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gaspé Sandstone Group, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gaspé Sandstone, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Lower Devonian in text; presumably Emsian, as with other Gaspé Sandstone collections from this area. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From "the argillaceous beds".
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: National Museum of Canada, Ottawa.
Primary reference: B. G. Gardiner. 1966. Catalogue of Canadian fossil fishes. Life Sciences Contribution of the Royal Ontario Museum 68:1-154 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 161373: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Petromyzontida | |
Cephalaspis canadensis n. sp. Robertson 1936
Cephalaspis campbelltonensis n. sp. Whiteaves 1881
Cephalaspis jexi n. sp. Traquair 1893 |