Porter's Brook, St. Martin's (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: New Brunswick, Canada (45.3° N, 65.5° W: paleocoordinates 69.6° S, 64.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hanford Brook Formation (St. John Group), Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray shale

• fine dark shales

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. M. Malinky. 1990. Cambrian Hyolitha from Northeast Canada: reappraisal of the Hyolith orders Camerothecida and Diplothecida. Journal of Paleontology 64(4):587-595 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64533: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 09.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

• hyoliths only
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Calyptoptomatida
 Camerothecida - Diplothecidae