Also known as Main Brace

Where: New Brunswick, Canada (48.0° N, 66.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° S, 18.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Campbellton Formation, Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)

• Gaspe Sandstone: Campbellton Formation. These names based on work done in the '30's and the '50's. Early Devonian age based on dispersed spores, McGregor (personal communication to Gensel).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray, calcareous siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: P.G. Gensel, H.N. Andrews, and W.H. Forbes. 1975. A New Species of Sawdonia with Notes on the Origin of Microphylls and Lateral Sporangia. Botanical Gazette 136(1):50-62 [W. Stein/J. Kao/J. Kao]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26438: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 15.10.2002

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