Also known as Arisaig
Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.6° N, 62.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° S, 33.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coronograptus cyphus graptolite zone, Beechhill Cove Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)
• Additional information in Boucot et al. 1974. Geol. Soc. Amer. Spec. Paper 119
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, bioturbated, silty mudstone and lithified, bioturbated siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Reposited in the USNM, YPM
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: J. S. Peel. 1977. Systematics and palaeontology of the Silurian gastropods of the Arisaig Group. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Biologiske Skrifter 21(1):1-89 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 49822: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Phanerotrema aff. jugosum Huxley and Etheridge 1865 snail | |
"Platyceras (Platyostoma) cornutum" = Platyostoma cornutum, Naticonema kauffmani
"Platyceras (Platyostoma) cornutum" = Platyostoma cornutum Hisinger 1837 snail
Naticonema kauffmani Peel 1975 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
? Fardenia sp. Lamont 1935 | |
"Leptaena cf. martinensis" = Leptaena rugosa
"Leptaena cf. martinensis" = Leptaena rugosa Dalman 1828 | |
Leptostrophia beechhillensis McLearn 1924 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Camarotoechia bimesiornata McLearn 1918 | |