south shore of Hawkes Bay, Forteau Fm.: Dyeran, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Redlichiida
- Olenellidae
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Mesonacis fremonti
(Walcott 1910)
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Mesonacis bonnensis
(Resser and Howell 1938)
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Newfoundland |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 57.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.8° South, 72.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Series 2 |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 2-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Dyeran | Trilobite zone: | Bonnia - Olenellus |
| Age range of interval: | 514.80000 - 511.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Forteau |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 195913 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | B. Kröger |
| Created: | 2018-08-30 12:18:06 | Last modified: | 2018-08-30 12:18:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-08-30 12:18:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 66688. | I. Knight, W. D. Boyce, C. B. Skovsted and U. Balthasar. 2017. The Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation, southern Labrador and Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland: Lithostratigraphy, trilobites, and depositional setting. Geological Survey 1:1-72 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger] |