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: peritidal; lithified packstone
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 9386: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 24.10.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Coleoloides typicalis | |
Coleoloides typicalis Walcott 1890 | |
Caveacus | |
Caveacus rectus n. gen. n. sp.
Caveacus rectus n. gen. n. sp. | |
Torellella laevigata Linnarsson 1871 | |
Hyolitha | |
Conotheca australiensis Bengtson et al. 1990 | |
Allatheca degeeri Holm 1893 | |
Orthothecimorpha | |
Ladatheca cylindrica Grabau 1900 | |
Paterinata | |
Brachiopoda | |
Jaycea deltraformis n. gen. n. sp., Sunnaginia imbricata
Sunnaginia imbricata Rozanov et al. 1969 | |
Camenella baltica Bengtson 1970 | |
Eccentrotheca kanesia Landing et al. 1980 | |
Aculifera | |