Point Amour, Forteau Fm. (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Labrador, Canada (51.5° N, 56.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° S, 71.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Forteau Formation (Labrador Group), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: limestone and carbonate

• "consisting of biohermal limestones, and bedded carbonates and shales"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. Stouge and W. D. Boyce. 1983. Fossils of Northwestern Newfoundland and Southeastern Labrador: Conodonts and Trilobites. In R. V. Gibbons (ed.), Publications of the Mineral Development Division 83(3):1-63 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195759: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 23.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonnia parvula Billings 1861 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Wanneriidae
"Wanneria (Olenellus) logani" = Elliptocephala logani
"Wanneria (Olenellus) logani" = Elliptocephala logani Walcott 1910 trilobite