Ellis 1879 Heron Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: New Brunswick, Canada (48.0° N, 66.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 10.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bonaventure Formation, Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, fine-grained, red sandstone

• a sandy braid plain
• The specimen is preserved as a convex hyporelief on fine-grained red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by Robert Weelock Ells in 1879

• Collected along with fossilized plants

Primary reference: L. Bateman, R. Cloutier, and H. C. Larsson. 2024. Description of a tetrapod trackway from the early Carboniferous Bonaventure Formation of New Brunswick, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 61(6):723-729more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 237062: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Joshua Levy on 14.11.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Hylopus sp. Dawson 1894 tetrapod