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Sll - "Small shelly fossils" of the Middle Cambrian Manuels River Formation at its type locality along Manuels River, Conception Bay South, Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada Hildenbrand A.1*, G. Austermann1 & P. Bengtson1 * E-mail: Anne.Hildenbrand@geow.uni-heidelberg.de

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institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 234, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany A Middle Cambrian fauna of phosphatised "small shelly fossils" preserved in calcareous and siliceous concretions within the dark grey to black shales of the Manuels River Formation has been studied, for the first time, at the type locality of the formation in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, Canada. The fairly low-diversity assemblage consists of the brachiopods Eoobolus priscus (Poulsen, 1932) and Vandalotreta djagoran (Kruse, 1990), spicules of hexactinellid sponges and fragments of trilobites and indeterminate taxa. As a result of the early-diagenetic formation of the concretions, the fossils are generally well preserved in three dimensions unlike the flattened specimens found in the surrounding shales. The faunal association and the homogeneous lithology of the formation indicate a shelf setting. Diversity decreases upwards within the formation, which suggests a progressive change in depositional environment caused by, for example, sealevel rises and variations in water turbidity. This project is founded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation, Heidelberg.

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