GSC 12238, West Bay, west of Partridge Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.4° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 7.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Canso Group, Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Maritimes basin; major rift-valley system developed after the Acadian orogeny

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by W.A. Bell in 1945; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: M. J. Copeland. 1957. The arthropod fauna of the Upper Carboniferous rocks of the Maritime Provinces. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 286:1-110 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216610: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.12.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Xiphosura
 Xiphosurida - Belinuridae
"Belinurus grandaevus" = Belinurus trilobitoides
"Belinurus grandaevus" = Belinurus trilobitoides Buckland 1837
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Leaiidae
"Leaia leidyi" = Leaia buntschiana
"Leaia leidyi" = Leaia buntschiana Beyrich 1864 clam shrimp