Locality a. Tributary to Rocky Brook, East of Hartland (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Loc. 2. Rocky Brook

Where: New Brunswick, Canada (46.3° N, 66.9° W: paleocoordinates 59.5° S, 51.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Birch Island Member (Turnbull Mountain Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• Was given as Shin Brook; now given as Turnbull Mountain, Lower Birch Island member. Overlies Upper Buttermilk Member. Turnbull Mountain overlies the Miramichi Group.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

• tuffaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: R. B. Neuman. 1971. An early middle Ordovician brachiopod assemblage from Maine, New Brunswick and northern Newfoundland. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 3:113-124 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185952: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.05.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Syntrophidae "n. sp."
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Tritoechia billingsi
 Strophomenida - Taffiidae
Schedophyla potteri n. gen. n. sp.
Schedophyla potteri n. gen. n. sp. Neuman 1971
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Tetralobulidae
Rugostrophia silvestris n. gen. n. sp.
Rugostrophia silvestris n. gen. n. sp. Neuman 1971
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Valcourea sp.
Valcourea sp. Raymond 1911
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites robustus" = Paralenorthis robustus
"Orthambonites robustus" = Paralenorthis robustus Neuman 1964
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Munhella cummingi n. gen. n. sp.
Munhella cummingi n. gen. n. sp. Neuman 1971
 Orthida - Productorthidae
Productorthis ? mainensis
 Orthida - Ranorthidae
Eodalmanella sp.