Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of Mabou Group and Related Middle Carboniferous Facies, Nova Scotia, Canada

Belt, Edward S.

doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1965)76[777:sapomg]2.0.co;2

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“…The ichnofauna preserved in upper Carboniferous red beds at Rams Head contains early amphibian and reptilian ichnofossils that substantiate the interpretations (Belt 1965;Ryan et al 1991;Naylor and Kennedy 1997) regarding the age and the origin o f the Parrsboro Formation. Naylor and Kennedy (1997, p. 120) noted, "The red colour, fossil roots and calcrete nodules suggest a floodplain environment that had a low water table that favoured the development o f plants and soils".…”

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“…Earlier inclusion o f the Parrsboro Formation in the underlying Mabou "It has often happened to geologists, as to other explorers of new regions, that footprints on the sand have guided them to the inhabitants o f unknown lands" J.W. Dawson -Acadian Geology (1878, p. 353) Group (Belt 1965) has not endured. However, the red and grey facies subdivisions proposed by Belt (1965) serve very well to distinguish a lower red facies (ca.…”

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“…Dawson -Acadian Geology (1878, p. 353) Group (Belt 1965) has not endured. However, the red and grey facies subdivisions proposed by Belt (1965) serve very well to distinguish a lower red facies (ca. 800 m thick) from an overlying "grey facies" (ca.…”

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Vertebrate trackways in the Parrsboro Formation (upper Carboniferous) at Rams Head, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

Mossman

Grantham

1999

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Vertebrate trace fossils are reported from the upper Parrsboro Formation at Rams Head, west of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. They occur as casts of tetrapod trackways. The trackmakers thrived in a floodplain setting vegetated with tree ferns. Pseudobradypus erneri Schmidt, represented by three trackways, has previously been reported from Germany. It is interpreted as having been produced by a cotylosaur and occurs in association with several scattered footprints and poorly preserved trackways of Hylopus hardingi Dawson; microsaurian-produced ichnotaxa are represented by Dromilopus quadrifidus Matthew and Cursipes dawsoni Matthew. Assignment of these trace fossils to the late Namurian to Westphalian A (upper Carboniferous) accords with the palynologically deduced age of the strata. As such, the sequence, which hosts the trace fossils, is stratigraphically equivalent to the Coal Mine Point Member of the Joggins Formation. REÉSUMÉ Des traces de vertébrés fossilisés sont signalées dans I'étage supéiieur de la formation de Parrsboro, à Rams Head, a I'ouest de Parrsboro, en Nouvelle-Écosse. Elles se manifestent sous forme de sillons de contre-empreintes de télrapods. Les créatures qui ont laissé ces traces vivaient dans une plaine inondable dont la végefation se composait de fougeres géantes. L'espéce Pseudobradypus erneri de Schmidt, qui a laissé trois sillons d'empreintes, a déjà été signalée en Allemagne. On croit qu'il pourrait s'agir d'un cotylosaurien et les empreintes s'accompagnent de plusieurs autres empreintes dispersées et mal préservées de l'espéce Hylopus hardingi de Dawson; des traces fossilisées auraient été laissées par des microsauriens comme le Dromilopus quadrifidus de Matthew et le Cursipes dawsoni de Matthew. L'attribution de ces empreintes fossilisées au namurien supérieur et au westphalien A (Carbonifere supérieur) corroborerait l'âge palynologique estimé de cet étage. De fait, la séquence qui renferme les traces fossilisées s'apparente au plan stratigraphique aux vestiges trouvés dans le secteur Coal Mine Point de la formation de Joggins. Traduit par la rédaction

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Vertebrate trackways in the Parrsboro Formation (upper Carboniferous) at Rams Head, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

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1999

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“…Current stratigraphic nomenclature has been adopted largely from that employed by Dawson (1878), who drew upon the work in the coalfields of his contemporaries McOuat (1874) and Robb (1874) at the Geological Survey of Canada, and from the subsequently evolved nomenclature of Walter A. Bell (1929Bell ( , 1944 and Edward Belt (1964).…”

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The Carboniferous evolution of Nova Scotia

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1998

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“…This suggestion is not unreasonable, if one supposes that the Narragansett basin is the erosional remnant of a graben similar to the Fundy basin rift in southeastern Canada. As much as 4.5 km of Lower Mississippian and as much as 6 km of Upper Mississippian-Lower Pennsylvanian sediments were deposited in the Fundy basin (Belt, 1965(Belt, , 1968. The similarity between the Narragansett and Fundy basins is suggested by their both belonging to the fault trough sedimentation model proposed by Klein (1968).…”

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Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of Mabou Group and Related Middle Carboniferous Facies, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Vertebrate trackways in the Parrsboro Formation (upper Carboniferous) at Rams Head, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

Vertebrate trackways in the Parrsboro Formation (upper Carboniferous) at Rams Head, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

The Carboniferous evolution of Nova Scotia

Geological Survey research 1972

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