Forteau Formation

Forteau Formation
Stratigraphic range: Series 2 ^[1] ("Upper Lower Cambrian") PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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.

Age

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

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

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ 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. doi:10.1130/g32580.1. ISSN 1943-2682.
^ 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.