FC 1-3, Fox Cove, Middle Shale Member (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Labrador, Canada (51.5° N, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° S, 71.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: H. taconica brachiopod zone, Middle Shale Member (Forteau Formation), Dyeran (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shale and calcareous mudstone

• In southern Labrador, a lower succession, about 15 to 20 m thick, of archeocyathid patch reefs, grey and red in colour, are associated with fringing grainstone and red and green, calcareous mudstone.
• The Middle shale is characterized by a succession of grey to green-grey shale intercalated with nodular limestone, archaeocyathid reefs and their companion sediments, calcareous siltstone, and minor sandstone.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. B. Skovsted, I. Knight, U. Balthasar and W. D. Boyce. 2017. Depth related brachiopod faunas from the lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of southern Labrador and western Newfoundland, Canada. Palaeontologia Electronica 20.3(54A):1-52 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196257: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 10.09.2018

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Taxonomic list

Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Micromitra sp. Meek 1873
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Botsfordiidae