Dalhousie Junction, Locality L (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Locality 2 of Grierson & Hueber

Where: New Brunswick, Canada (48.0° N, 66.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° S, 18.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, calcareous sandstone and lithified, calcareous lime mudstone

• fossils occur in calcareous concretions scattered through poorly consolidated white calcareous standstone. concretions are from the size of a large garden pea up to masses 3 ft. long and 2 ft. thick.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. D. Grierson and F. M. Hueber. 1968. Devonian Lycopods from northern New Brunswick. International Symposium on the Devonian System, Oswald, D. H., (Ed.) Alberta Soc. Petroleum Geol., Calgary. 2:823-836 [P. Gensel/P. Gensel/P. Gensel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26526: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 16.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• see Trant & Gensel (1985). Branching in Psilophyton: A New Species from the Lower Devonian of New Brunswick, Canada. American Journal of Botany, 72(8): 1256-1273.
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Drepanophycus spinaeformis
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Drepanophycus spinaeformis
Drepanophycus
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Drepanophycus gaspianus
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales - Psilophytaceae
Psilophyton coniculum
Psilophyton coniculum
see Trant & Gensel (1985)