MSM1-2, Mount St. Margaret quarry, Devils Cove Member: Dyeran, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata - Lingulida - Botsfordiidae
Botsfordia caelata (Hall 1847)
Lingulata - Acrotretida
Hadrotreta taconica Walcott 1887
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Newfoundland
Coordinates: 51.0° North, 56.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.7° South, 71.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Series 2
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 2-3
Key time interval:Dyeran Brachiopod zone: Hadrotreta taconica
Age range of interval:514.80000 - 511.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Forteau Member:Devils Cove
Stratigraphy comments: Assemblage 1 zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: grainstone
Lithology description: Devils Cove member (Betz, 1939), a regionally mapped carbonate unit, 3 to 8 m thick, at the base of the formation, is characterized by its red to purple colour, nodular fabric with abundant shale partings and mix of grainy and fine-grained carbonate. Scattered archeocyathans occur with other skeletal debris in grainstone.
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:196285
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger
Created:2018-09-10 02:36:33 Last modified:2018-09-10 02:36:59
Access level:the public Released:2018-09-10 02:36:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
66749. C. B. Skovsted, I. Knight, U. Balthasar and W. D. Boyce. 2017. Depth related brachiopod faunas from the lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of southern Labrador and western Newfoundland, Canada. Palaeontologia Electronica 20.3(54A):1-52 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner]