MSM1-4, Mount St. Margaret quarry, Middle Shale Member (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (51.0° N, 56.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° S, 71.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Assemblage 1 zone

Environment/lithology: gray, green shale and nodular limestone

• 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 196292: 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 - Eoobolidae
Pustulobolus triangulus Skovsted et al. 2017