FC3-9, Fox Cove, Upper Lmst. 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: Paterina brachiopod zone, Upper Limestone Member (Forteau Formation), Dyeran (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; mudstone and shelly/skeletal grainstone

• The incomplete Upper limestone in southern Labrador is host to a basal bios-trome complex of archeocyathids, skeletal grainstone, bedded mudstone, and dolostone. (James and Kobluk, 1987; Hughes, 1979).Upward, the complex interbeds with or is locally sharply overlain by oolitic limestone; microbial boundstone also occurs.
• At Fox Cove and Pointe Amour, its base downcuts into underlying bedded siliciclastics and grainstone.

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 196268: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 10.09.2018

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Taxonomic list

Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Paterina sp. Beecher 1891