R432-5, Upper Limestone Member (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (51.0° N, 56.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° S, 71.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Upper Limestone Member (Forteau Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: I. Knight, W. D. Boyce, C. B. Skovsted and U. Balthasar. 2017. The Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation, southern Labrador and Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland: Lithostratigraphy, trilobites, and depositional setting. Geological Survey 1:1-72 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195922: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 31.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Micromitra sp. Meek 1873
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
"Olenellus transitans" = Paedeumias transitans
"Olenellus transitans" = Paedeumias transitans Walcott 1910 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonnia sp. Walcott 1916 trilobite
Bonnia parvula Billings 1861 trilobite
Bonnia senecta Billings 1861 trilobite