WIR-232.8 [Chapel Island Fm] (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.6° N, 62.0° W: paleocoordinates 79.5° S, 56.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chapel Island Formation, Placentian (541.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chapel Island Fm, which overlies the Rencontre Fm, and is overlain by the Random Fm. AGE: Early Cambrian on the basis of trace and body fossils; lower Placentian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 232.8, near top of local section and the Chapel Island Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, nodular, quartzose, red, calcareous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Deposition in lower part of dysaerobic zone.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Calcareous nodules in red to purple, fine-grained quartz arenites and arkosic quartz arenites. LITHIFICATION:

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

• COLLECTOR: Landing and Murphy, c. 1990. REPOSITORY: Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).

Primary reference: E. Landing and J. B. Murphy. 1991. Uppermost Precambrian(?)-Lower Cambrian of mainland Nova Scotia: faunas, depositional environments, and stratigraphic revision. Journal of Paleontology 65(3):382-396 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86744: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.02.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for acid-digested microfossils. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species resolution identifications.
Brachiopoda
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Eccentrotheca kanesia Landing et al. 1980