Also known as Atholville Beds; Campbellton
Where: New Brunswick, Canada (48.0° N, 66.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 15.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Campbellton Formation, Pragian to Pragian (410.8 - 393.3 Ma)
• ""basal Campbellton Formation... The beds... uncomformably overlie rhyolite of the Lower Devonian Val d'Amour Formation dated at 407.4 +/- 0.8 Ma... Miospores indicated an early Emsian age... However, in terms of the international timescale... the basal beds could be as old as late Pragian"
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, coarse-grained mudstone
•certainly highly lithified based on figures of specimens
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the BMNH, CM, MCZ
• other specimens are in the National Museum of Scotland
Primary reference: S. Turner and R. F. Miller. 2008. Protodus jexi Woodward, 1892 (Chondrichthyes), from the Lower Devonian Campbellton Formation, New Brunswick, Canada. Acta Geologica Polonica 58(2):133-145 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90629: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 11.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Protodus jexi n. gen. n. sp.
Protodus jexi n. gen. n. sp. Woodward 1892 elasmobranch |