Also known as Big East River 5
Where: Newfoundland, Canada (51.6° N, 57.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° S, 71.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Paterina brachiopod zone, Upper Limestone Member (Forteau Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)
• Assemblage 2 zone (Paterina zone)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; grainstone and carbonaceous rudstone
•and an upper heterolithic division predominantly of carbonate with some metre-thick siliciclastic intervals. The lower division begins with a lower 7 m interval of archeocyathid bioherms, grainstone and lesser microbial boundstone. It is
•succeeded by about 18 m of oolitic, skeletal and Salterella-rich grainstone in which are scattered a few archeocyathans and broken oncoliths. Beds of matrix supported carbonate rudstone (matrix of shale, mudstone, or dolostone) occur in the lower interval and mark its base at MSM.
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 196316: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 10.09.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Paterinata | |
Paterina sp. Beecher 1891 |