Powers Steps, Bell Island ( of Canada)
Where: Newfoundland, Canada (47.6° N, 53.0° W: paleocoordinates 68.3° S, 38.3° W)
When: Powers Steps Formation (Wabana Group), Tremadoc to Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, muddy shale and lithified, silty siltstone
• Entire succession part of storm dominated deltaic system
• shale, siltstone, sandstone, oolitic ironstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Primary reference: D. Fillion and R. K. Pickerill. 1990. Ichnology of the Upper Cambrian? to Lower Ordovician Bell Island and Wabana groups of eastern Newfoundland, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 7:1-119 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175853: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 15.01.2016
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