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
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
Brachiopoda | |
Eccentrotheca kanesia Landing et al. 1980 |