Also known as Head of Bay of Fundy, Coal Measures
Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.7° N, 64.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° S, 7.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Joggins Formation (Cumberland Group), Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)
• Currently, the Cumberland Group is considered equivalent 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)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray sandstone and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: coalified
Primary reference: R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2014. Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 3A2 Temnospondyli I. [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175937: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 20.01.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dendrysekos helogenes Steen 1934 tetrapod NSM 978GF53 (Godfrey et al., 1987: fig.1 as Dendrerpeton acadianum) and FGM 987GF99.1 (Holmes et al., 1998, also as D. acadianum)
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