Forteau Formation

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Forteau Formation
Stratigraphic range: Series 2 [1] ("Upper Lower Cambrian")
Type Formation
Location
Region Newfoundland and Labrador
Country Canada

The Forteau Formation is a geologic formation in Newfoundland and Labrador. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian period.

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Age

A Dyerian trilobite fauna places it predominantly in the Bonnia‒Olenellus trilobite zone [1]

Fauna

Among its fauna are small carbonaceous fossils [2] and brachiopods [3] and trilobites [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Knight, Ian (November 3, 2017). "The Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation, southern Labrador and Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland: Lithostratigraphy, trilobites, and depositional setting". DIVA. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ Butterfield, N.J.; Harvey, T.H.P. (2012). "Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs): A new measure of early Paleozoic paleobiology". Geology. 40 (1). Geological Society of America: 71–74. Bibcode:2012Geo....40...71B. doi:10.1130/g32580.1. ISSN   1943-2682.
  3. ↑ Skovsted, C.B.; Knight, I.; Balthasar, U.; Boyce, W.D. (November 6, 2017). "Depth related brachiopod faunas from the lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of southern Labrador and western Newfoundland, Canada". Palaeontologia Electronica. 20 (3): 1–52. doi: 10.26879/775 . hdl: 10026.1/11606 . ISSN   1094-8074 . Retrieved November 16, 2018.


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