Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.8° N, 60.3° W: paleocoordinates 77.0° S, 61.2° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Camenella baltica small shelly zone, Fosters Point Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)
• JA: Fosters Point Formation is Atdabanian, see p. 483 - 484
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified packstone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical,
Primary reference: E. Landing. 1995. Upper Placentian-Branchian series of mainland Nova Scotia (middle-upper Lower Cambrian) faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision. Journal of Paleontology 69(3):475-495 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 232701: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.12.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Caveacus | |
| Hyolitha | |
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Conotheca australiensis Bengtson et al. 1990 | |
| Orthothecimorpha | |
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"Ladatheca" cylindrica Grabau 1900 | |
| Brachiopoda | |
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Eccentrotheca kanesia Landing et al. 1980 | |
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Camenella baltica Bengtson 1970
Camenella cf. reticulosa Bengtson et al. 1990 | |
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| Paterinata | |