The Windsor Series or Lower Carboniferous Limestone and Gypsiferous Beds (Carboniferous of Canada)
Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.0° N, 62.0° W: paleocoordinates 16.6° S, 12.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and sandstone
• The essential features of this formation are thick beds of marine limestone, characterized principally by numerous brachiopods. Associated with these limestones are beds of gypsum, and they are enclosed in thick deposits of sandstone, clay, and marl, of prevailing red colours. The thickness of this formation seems to be very variable, and in some districts it is represented almost entirely by conglomerates, while in others it abounds in limestone and gypsum.
Collection methods: Sir C. Lyell first defined this formation in 1843.
Primary reference: J. W. Dawson. 1873. Report on the Fossil Plants of the Lower Carboniferous and Millstone Grit Formations of Canada. Geological Survey of Canada [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13091: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 21.01.2002, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Strophomenata | |
"Productus cora" = Linoproductus cora
"Productus cora" = Linoproductus cora d'Orbigny 1842 | |
"Productus semireticulatus" = Dictyoclostus semireticulatus
"Productus semireticulatus" = Dictyoclostus semireticulatus Martin 1809 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
"Athyris subtilita" = Composita subtilita
"Athyris subtilita" = Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |