NeR locality, Fosters Point Formation, 48.0m above NeR Section - Landing 1995 (Cambrian of Canada)

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

• massive fossil packstones with eroded hardgrounds overlain by fossil grainstone lenses and mantled by fe-mn-impregnated cryptalgalaminate crusts.

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

• Taxonomic list does not include cryptalgalaminate crusts.
unclassified
  -
Coleoloides typicalis
  -
Coleoloides typicalis Walcott 1890
Caveacus
  -
Caveacus rectus n. gen. n. sp.
Caveacus rectus n. gen. n. sp.
 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Torellella laevigata Linnarsson 1871
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Conotheca australiensis Bengtson et al. 1990
 Orthothecida - Allathecidae
 Orthothecida - Gracilithecidae
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Orthothecimorpha
 Circothecida -
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida - Sunnaginiidae
Jaycea deltraformis n. gen. n. sp.
Jayceia n. sp. deltraformis
Sunnaginia imbricata Rozanov et al. 1969
 Tommotiida - Tommotiidae
Camenella baltica Bengtson 1970
 Tommotiida -
Eccentrotheca kanesia Landing et al. 1980
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae