Crabb River - Bell (1948): Mississippian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Rhacopteris petiolata leaf, axis
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Bell 1960 | ||||||
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Lepidodendrales
- Lepidodendraceae
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Lepidodendron sp. axis
Sternberg 1820
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unclassified
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Diplotmema adiantoides leaf, axis
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Coordinates: | 48.2° North, 58.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 13.7° South, 10.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 1-3 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Namurian A |
| Key time interval: | Mississippian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 358.9 - 323.2 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Searston Beds | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "The strata on Crabbs River are downfaulted on the southeast against grey and brownish siltstone, which is underlain by gypsum. .....The northwest boundary of the Searston beds is lidewise a fault, for although a fault contact is not actually exposed, the Searston beds stand vertically, with their top surfaces to the southeast." (Bell, 1948- p. 20) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "One outcrop on the northern side of the brook shows an 8-foot band of dark brown, compact siltstone resembling a very lean oil-shale" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils,some microfossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Also listed "band carries ostracoda, rhizodopsoid fish scales, coprolites" | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Crabbs Brook - Location No. 3654 Bell (1960) | ||
| Database number: | 28860 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Raymond | Enterer: | C. Metz |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2003-02-26 11:07:14 | Last modified: | 2012-10-28 01:16:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-02-26 11:07:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7112. | W. A. Bell. 1948. Early Carboniferous strata of St. Georges Bay area, Newfoundland. Canada Geological Survey Bulletin 10:1-45 [A. Raymond/C. Metz/C. Metz] |
Secondary references:
| 7111 | W. A. Bell. 1960. Mississippian Horton Group of Type Windsor-Horton District, Nova Scotia. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 314:1-58 [A. Raymond/C. Metz/A. Raymond] |