CAT-2 (Cambrian of Canada)

Also known as CAT-2, Cuslett Formation, Cape Breton Island, Canada - Landing, 1991

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (46.0° N, 60.0° W: paleocoordinates 79.6° S, 57.0° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Camenella baltica small shelly zone, 3 Member (Cuslett Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified, burrowed, cherty/siliceous lime mudstone

• Marine deposition controled by epeirogenic extension.
• burrowed purple to red siliciclastic mudstones with or without calcareous nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. D. Landing. 1991. Upper Precambrian through Lower Cambrian of Cape Breton Island: faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision. Journal of Paleontology 65(4):570-595 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6896: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 08.04.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Collections marked as a-type are acid disaggregated.
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Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
Halkieria fordi n. sp.
Halkieria fordi n. sp.
a-type, slender sclerite
Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida -
Eccentrotheca kanesia
Eccentrotheca kanesia Landing et al. 1980
a-type, 9 cap-shaped sclerite, 2 fused sclerites, 2 broad scleirte
 Tommotiida - Sunnaginiidae
Sunnaginia imbricata
Sunnaginia imbricata Rozanov et al. 1969
a-type, 2 right sclerite, 2 left sclerite
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Micromitra phillipsi, Paterina sp.
Paterina sp. Beecher 1891
a-type
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp.
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
a type, 6-rayed sclerite
Coleoloides typicalis
  -
Coleoloides typicalis
Coleoloides typicalis Walcott 1890
a-type
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus tenuis
Hyolithellus tenuis Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
a type, irregularly annulated conch
 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Torellella laevigata
Torellella laevigata Linnarsson 1871
a-type