Also known as CAT-3, Foster Point Formation, Cape Breton Island, Canada - Landing, 1991

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (46.0° N, 60.0° W: paleocoordinates 78.9° S, 57.9° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Camenella baltica trilobite zone, Fosters Point Formation (Bonavista Group), Tommotian to Tommotian (525.5 - 516.0 Ma)

• Deposition shows a series of shoaling intervals. Catalone River bridge CAT-3

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, condensed, hardground, oncoidal wackestone and shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, original phosphate

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical,

• Collection shows appearance of abundant orthothecidsand hyolithids which are an important allochem locally. Limonitic or Mn/Fe molds or internal cavities also present.

Primary reference: E. D. Landing. 1991. Upper Precambrian through Lower Cambrian of Cape Breton Island: faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision. Journal of Paleontology 65(4):570-595 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6897: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 08.04.2000

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