Arisaig 6-14 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.6° N, 62.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° S, 32.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: middle Member (Ross Brook Formation), Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• Middle to late Llandovery.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, bioturbated, gray, silty shale

• Heavily bioturbated shales and siltstones, siltstones predominating. Mixed with layers and lenses of laminated or wave-cross laminated siltstone. Water depth < 90 m.

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: J. M. Hurst and R. K. Pickerill. 1986. The relationship between sedimentary facies and faunal associations in the Llandovery siliclastic Ross Brook Formation, Arisaig, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 23:705-726 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3047: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 23.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Ichnofossils: Chondrites, Planolites, Palaeophycus, Helminthopsis.

Faunal count: 100.

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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites sp.
Dalmanites sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites canadensis
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
Eocoelia intermedia
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
"spp."
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoid ossicles