Reassessment of vertebrate ichnotaxa from the Upper Carboniferous ‘Fern Ledges’, Lancaster Formation, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Stimson, Matthew R.; Miller, Randall F.; Lucas, Spencer G.

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“…The Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada has yielded the most complete record of Carboniferous fossil tetrapod footprints in the world (Lucas et al 2005(Lucas et al , 2022, spanning the ichnofossil localities in Atlantic Canada was unknown prior to the present study. Previously documented records of tetrapod tracks from the Bashkirian of the Maritimes Basin are from: the Joggins Formation in Nova Scotia (Dawson 1863;Matthew 1903Matthew , 1904Sternberg 1933;Sarjeant and Mossman 1978;Lucas et al 2005;Cotton et al 1995;Stimson et al 2012;Stimson et al 2015;Prescott et al 2014); the Tynemouth Creek Formation of New Brunswick (Falcon-Lang et al 2010); the Lancaster Formation at Fern Ledges, Saint John, New Brunswick (Matthew 1910;Falcon-Lang and Miller 2007;Stimson et al 2016a); and the Grand Anse Formation at Johnstons Mills, New Brunswick (Falcon-Lang et al. 2007).…”

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A Batrachichnus salamandroides trackway from the Minto Formation of central New Brunswick, Canada: implications for alternative trackmaker interpretations

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King

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A new specimen of Batrachichnus salamandroides was recovered from a recently discovered fossil-bearingsite situated along the southern shore of Grand Lake, New Brunswick, among a diverse ichnofaunal assemblagefrom the Middle Pennsylvanian (upper Bolsovian; lower Moscovian), upper Minto Formation. The identity ofthe tracemaker of this ichnogenus is reinterpreted as a composite of various late Paleozoic tetrapod taxa, basedon similarities of the postcranial skeletons, notably that of the manus and pes, of both temnospondyls and some“microsaurs”. These results indicate that the tracemaker of the monospecific ichnogenus Batrachnichus is notlimited solely to a temnospondyl tracemaker, as previously interpreted, and that some “microsaurs” should alsobe considered among tracemaker candidates for this ichnotaxon.

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A Batrachichnus salamandroides trackway from the Minto Formation of central New Brunswick, Canada: implications for alternative trackmaker interpretations

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The Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada: Basin Creation and Destruction During the Paleozoic Assembly of Pangea

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Pascucci

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The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada

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Structure and stratigraphy in the Pennsylvanian tectonic zone of southern New Brunswick, Canada: the ‘Maritime coastal disturbance’ revisited

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2020

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Identified as the ‘Variscan Front’ 40 years ago, the Pennsylvanian tectonic zone of southern New Brunswick has presented structural and stratigraphic challenges for the last century. In 1986, R. Damian Nance presented an integrated tectonostratigraphic analysis which suggested that the zone represented a transpressive flower structure controlling both deposition of Pennsylvanian sedimentary formations and their subsequent deformation, a consequence of Meguma terrane docking and subsequent adjustment. The strength of this model is demonstrated through the integration of recent field studies and more recent geochronology, which refines the details and expands the scale of the flower structures. Current understanding suggests that three large transpressive structures developed diachronously, and the southern tectonic zone is linked with strike-slip faults to the north (especially the Kennebecasis Fault) via the Spruce Lake Shear Zone. The early history of this zone coincides with a change from deposition of locally sourced continental red beds (lower Pennsylvanian or youngest Mississippian Balls Lake Formation) to more distally sourced fluvial deposits (lower Pennsylvanian Lancaster and Tynemouth Creek formations). Rather than being an isolated segment of a late Pennsylvanian ‘Variscan front’, this tectonic zone can be integrated into the overall strike-slip regime that dominated the Carboniferous evolution of this orogen and the successor basins.

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Reassessment of vertebrate ichnotaxa from the Upper Carboniferous ‘Fern Ledges’, Lancaster Formation, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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A Batrachichnus salamandroides trackway from the Minto Formation of central New Brunswick, Canada: implications for alternative trackmaker interpretations

A Batrachichnus salamandroides trackway from the Minto Formation of central New Brunswick, Canada: implications for alternative trackmaker interpretations

The Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada: Basin Creation and Destruction During the Paleozoic Assembly of Pangea

Structure and stratigraphy in the Pennsylvanian tectonic zone of southern New Brunswick, Canada: the ‘Maritime coastal disturbance’ revisited

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