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Middle Cambrian (Acadian Series) conocoryphid and paradoxidid trilobites from the Upper Chamberlain's Brook Formation, Newfoundland and New Brunswick

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Dong Hee Kim ,
Stephen R. Westrop  and
Ed Landing
Dong Hee Kim
Affiliation:
Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman 73072,
Stephen R. Westrop
Affiliation:
2Center for Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New York State Museum, The State Education Department, Albany 12230
Ed Landing
Affiliation:
2Center for Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New York State Museum, The State Education Department, Albany 12230
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Abstract

The Fossil Brook Member of the upper Chamberlain's Brook Formation is a thin (up to 14 m) but distinctive, unconformity-bound depositional sequence recognizable from Rhode Island to eastern Newfoundland in Avalonian North America. Its diverse trilobite fauna was first described more than century ago from the limestone-rich facies of the member in southern New Brunswick. However, the systematics, stratigraphic context, and biostratigraphic significance of these trilobites have remained poorly known. A revision of the conocoryphid and paradoxidid trilobites has been completed, and the taxa set into their stratigraphic context within the middle Middle Cambrian. The faunas of the Fossil Brook are assigned to the Eccaparadoxides eteminicus Zone of Avalon. Although biogeographic barriers between Avalon and Gondwana remained strong in the Middle Cambrian and few shared trilobite species are present, a generalized correlation of the E. eteminicus Zone into Gondwana is with the Badulesia tenera Zone of the Toushamian Stage in Morocco and the Badulesia Zone of the Caesaraugustian Stage in Spain.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 76 , Issue 5 , September 2002 , pp. 822 - 842
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Present address: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea.

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