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, Deer Arm Limestone
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; calcareous mudstone and limestone
•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 196330: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 10.09.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Eothele tubulus Ushatinskaya 1987 | |
Hadrotreta taconica Walcott 1887 | |
Paterinata | |
Micromitra sp. Meek 1873 |