Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.8° N, 60.3° W: paleocoordinates 76.8° S, 60.9° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Camenella baltica zone, Fosters Point Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)
• JA: Fosters Point Formation is Atdabanian, see p. 483 - 484
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical,
Primary reference: E. Landing. 1995. Upper Placentian-Branchian series of mainland Nova Scotia (middle-upper Lower Cambrian) faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision. Journal of Paleontology 69(3):475-495 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9385: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 24.10.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Torellella laevigata Linnarsson 1871 | |
Coleoloides typicalis | |
Coleoloides typicalis Walcott 1890 | |
Caveacus | |
Caveacus rectus n. gen. n. sp.
Caveacus rectus n. gen. n. sp. | |
Scyphozoa | |
"Anabaritellus tricarinatus" = Selindeochrea tricarinata
"Anabaritellus tricarinatus" = Selindeochrea tricarinata Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish | |
Conodonta | |
Gapparodus cf. bisulcata conodont
Hertzina elongata conodont | |
Protoconodonta | |
Protohertzina ? anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Camenella baltica Bengtson 1970 | |
Sunnaginia imbricata Rozanov et al. 1969 | |
Paterinata | |
Hyolitha | |
"? Actinotheca sp." = Cupitheca
"? Actinotheca sp." = Cupitheca Duan 1984 | |
Conotheca australiensis Bengtson et al. 1990 | |
Allatheca degeeri Holm 1893 | |
Aculifera | |