Hawkes bay quarry, Forteau Fm.: Dyeran, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus lapworthi Peach and Horne 1892
Olenellus sp. Hall 1861
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Wanneriidae
Wanneria sp. Walcott 1910
see common names

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: 514.8 - 511 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Labrador Formation:Forteau
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty,sandy mudstone
Secondary lithology: silty,sandy "shale"
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:196374
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Created:2018-09-11 02:12:03 Last modified:2018-09-11 02:12:03
Access level:the public Released:2018-09-11 02:12:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
66770. W. D. Boyce. 2006. An occurrence of the Scottish trilobite Olenellus lapworthi Peach and Horne, 1892 in the early Cambrian Forteau Formation (Labrador Group) Hawkes Bay, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland, Canada. In V. Millien (ed.), Canadian Paleontology Conference 2006-Proceedings No. 4 (4)6-7 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]