GM11-1-14, Mackenzie Mill Member (Cambrian of Canada)

Also known as Gros Morne section1-6

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (49.5° N, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° S, 73.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mackenzie Mill Member (Forteau Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• Assemblage 3

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; calcareous mudstone and limestone

• The Mackenzie Mill member consists of 190 to 210 m of well-lithified,

•calcareous mud rock, black and dark grey shale and mudstone, calcareous thin bedded siltstone and sandstone, current bedded and bioturbated sandstone, and nodular to lumpy, fine grained to skeletal-rich limestone.

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 196321: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 10.09.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Acrotretida -
Hadrotreta taconica
Hadrotreta taconica Walcott 1887