The trace fossil Neonereites multiserialis Pickerill and Harland, 1988 from the Devonian Wapske Formation, northwest New Brunswick

Abstract

The trace fossil Neonereites multiserialis Pickerill and Harland is recorded and described from the Lower Devonian Wapske Formation of northwest New Brunswick. Preserved typically in positive hyporelief on sandstone soles, the ichnospecies can potentially be confused with morphologically similar ichnotaxa, particularly Granularia Pomel, Ophiomorpha Lundgren, Ardelia Chamberlain and Baer and Edaphichnium Bown and Kraus, and is best differentiated by undertaking, whenever possible, vertical transverse and longitudinal sectioning of the structures. The records and included proposed synonymy suggest that Neonereites multiserialis is Silurian (Wenlock) to Tertiary (Eocene) in age and is indicative of deep-water flysch environments. [Traduit par le journal]

A Review of Proterozoic to Early Paleozoic Lithotectonic Terranes in New Brunswick, Canada and their Tectonic Evolution during Penobscot, Taconic, Salinic and Acadian Orogenesis

“…The lower part of the Wapske succession (Lochkovian) is thin-to mediumbedded, is locally brachiopod-bearing, and exhibits Bouma sequences indicative of deposition by turbidity currents in a relatively deep-water marine environment. The upper part of the succession is medium-to thick-bedded, has more abundant conglomerate beds, and locally contains plant debris, suggesting that, in places, deposition occurred in a more near-shore environment (St. Peter 1978Venugopal 1982;Wilson 1990;Pickerill 1991;Pickerill 1994a, b, c, 1995;Boucot and Wilson 1994).…”

Archetypally Siluro-Devonian ichnofauna in the Cowie Formation, Scotland: implications for the myriapod fossil record and Highland Boundary Fault Movement

“…Meniscate burrows reported from the mid-Silurian Grampians Group of Western Australia probably formed in a fully marine setting (George, 1994;contra Gouramanis et al, 2003). Elsewhere (2000), Gand et al (1997), Germs (1972), Goldring and Pollard (1995), Graham and Pollard (1982), Hakes (1976), Han and Pickerill (1994), Häntzschel (1975), Hunter and Lomas (2003), Knaust (2004), Kulkarni and Borkar (2014), Kumpulainen et al (2006), Maples and Archer (1987), Maples and Suttner (1990), Martino (1989), Mikulas (1993), Minter et al (2007), Morrissey and Braddy (2004), Narbonne (1984), O'Sullivan et al (1986), Pearson (1992), Pickerill (1991), Pickerill (1992), Pickerill et al (1987), Pickerill et al (1984), Prescott et al (2014), Qi et al (2012), Savoy (1992), Smith (1993), Stephenson and Gould (1995), Tanoli and Pickerill (1989), Thomas and Smith (1998), Tunbridge (1984) and Weber and Braddy (2004). they are reported in Late Silurian-Early Devonian deposits from transitional continental-marine settings in the Ringerike Group of Norway, Tumblagooda Sandstone of Western Australia, and Mereenie Sandstone of the Northern Territory, Australia (Trewin and McNamara, 1994;Davies et al, 2006 Gouramanis and…”

Storm-deposited sandstones (tempestites) and related ichnofossils of the Late Ordovician Georgian Bay Formation, southern Ontario, Canada: Discussion

“…Earth Sci. 28, 1688-1689(1991 Kerr and I are flattered that our paper could be considered a "detailed ichnological analysis" of the Georgian Bay Formation, but we never intended nor claimed this was the case. Instead, we emphasized the sedimentology and depositional environment of these much-ignored strata and identified related ichnogenera.…”

“…Taxonomic freedom dictates that Kerr and Eyles may wish to retain Scalarituba as a distinctive ichnotaxon and may, in fact, be well justified in doing so. Indeed, as reviewed in Pickerill (1991), a comparable situation exists with Neonereites. Nevertheless, their example bears only a vague and superficial resemblance to Scalarituba (and even less so to Nereites), which is typically preserved endichnially and lacks a distinct wall .…”