Where: New Brunswick, Canada (45.3° N, 66.0° W: paleocoordinates 74.3° S, 57.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Somerset Street Member (Hanford Brook Formation), Caerfai (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)
• Part of the Branchian Series
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone and lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Primary reference: S. R. Westrop and E. Landing. 2000. Lower Cambrian (Branchian) trilobites and biostratigraphy of the Hanford Brook Formation, southern New Brunswick. Journal of Paleontology 74(5):858-878 [N. Heim/N. Heim/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34570: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 10.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Protolenus elegans trilobite |