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ARISAIG 

  • Beck J.H. and Strother P.K. 1996. Acritarchs from the Silurian section at Arisaig, Nova Scotia, Canada: Paleoecology, in: Fatka O. & Servais T. (eds.) Acritarcha in Praha, Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geologica 40, pp. 321-334.
  • Beck, J.H. 1998. Paleopalynology of the Silurian Arisaig section, Nova Scotia. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Honeyman, D. 1888. Notes on Examination by Prof. James Hall of Silurian Collections of the Provincial Museum. Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotia Institute of Natural Science 7, pp. 14-17. 
  • Honeyman, D. 1864. Geology of Arisaig, Nova Scotia. Geological Society, p. 333-345. 
  • Hurst, J.M., and Pickerill, R.K. 1986. The relationship between sedimentary facies and faunal associations in the Llandovery siliciclastic Ross Brook Formation, Arisaig, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 23 (5), pp. 705-726.
  • McLearn, F.H. 1918. The Silurian Arisaig Series of Arisaig, Nova Scotia. American Journal of Science, Series 4, Volume 5, Number 266, pp. 126-140.
  • McLearn, F.H. 1924. Paleontology of the Silurian Arisaig, Nova Scotia. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir, 118, p. 180.
  • Peel, J.S. 1977. Systematics and paleoecology of the Silurian gastropods of the Arisaig Group, Nova Scotia. Det. Kong. Danske Viden. Selskab, 21 (2), p. 80.
  • Strother, P.K. and Beck, J.H. 1992. Paleopalynology of the Arisaig Group (Silurian), Nova Scotia; results of an initial survey. Geological Society of America Abstracts With Programs, 24 (3), p. 79.
HORTON BLUFF 
  • Bell, W.A. 1929. Horton-Windsor District, Nova Scotia. Ottawa: F.A. Acland. 
  • Bell, W.A.. 1960. Mississippian Horton Group of Type Windsor-Horton District, Nova Scotia. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 314.
  • Cameron, B., Domanski, D., Van Dommelen, R., and White, P.D. 1992. Lacustrine nearshore and shoreline trace fossils from the Early Carboniferous Horton Bluff Formation. In: Program and Summaries; Sixteenth Annual Open House and Review of Activities. MacDonald, D.R., and Mills, K.A. (Editors). Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy Report, Halifax, Nova Scotia, p. 47.
  • Utting, J., Keppie, J.D., Giles, P.S. 1989. Palynology and stratigraphy of the Lower Carboniferous Horton Group, Nova Scotia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin, pp. 117-143.
JOGGINS 
  • Archer, A.W., Calder, J.H., Gibling, M.R., Naylor, R.D., Reid, D.R., and Wightman, W.G. 1995. Invertebrate trace fossils and agglutinated foraminifera as indicators of marine influence within the classic Carboniferous section at Joggins, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 32, pp. 2027-2039.
  • Bell, W.A. 1914. Joggins Carboniferous Section, Nova Scotia. Geological Survey of Canada, Summary Report for 1912, pp. 360-371.
  • Brand, U. 1994. Continental hydrology and climatology of the Carboniferous Joggins Formation (lower Cumberland Group) at Joggins, Nova Scotia: evidence from the geochemistry of bivalves. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 106 (1-4), pp. 307-321.
  • Calder, J.H., A.P. Scott, A. Archer, G. Dolby and D.M. Skilliter. 1996. The fossil record of Joggins: a second look. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. 48, p. A106. 
  • Carroll, R.L. 1963. A Microsaur from the Pennsylvanian of Joggins, Nova Scotia. Natural History Papers of the National Museum of Canada. Ottawa: Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources. 
  • Carroll, R.L. 1967. Labyrinthodants from the Joggins Formation. Journal of Paleontology 41(1), pp. 111-142. 

  • Carroll, R.L. 1966. Microsaurs from the Westphalian B of Joggins, Nova Scotia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 177, pp. 63-97. 
  • Carroll, R.L. 1967. A Limnoscelid Reptile From the Middle Pennsylvanian. Journal of Paleontology 41(1), pp. 1256-1261. 
  • Dawson, J.W. 1854. On the Coal-measures of the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. Geological Society of London Quarterly 10, pp. 1-42.
  • Dawson, J.W. 1861. On an Erect Sigillaria from the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. Geological Society of London Quarterly 17, pp. 522-524.
  • Dawson, J.W. 1862. Notice of the Discovery of Additional Remains of Land Animals in the Coal Measures of the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. Geological Society of London Quarterly 18, pp. 5-7.

  • Dawson, J.W. 1891. On the mode of occurrence of remains of land animals in erect trees in Nova Scotia. with Remarks on other Carnivorous Amphibians. Royal Society of Canada Transactions 19, pp. 127-128. 
  • Dawson, J.W. 1891. On New Specimens of Dendrerpeton acadianum with Remarks on other Carnivorous Amphibians. Geological Magazine. 8, pp. 145-156. 
  • Dawson, J.W. 1882. On the Results of Recent Explorations of Erect Trees Containing Animal Remains in the Coal Formation of Nova Scotia. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London. 173, pp. 621-659.
  • Ferguson, L., 1966. The Recovery of Some Large Track-bearing Slabs From Joggins, Nova Scotia. Maritime Sediments. 2(3), pp. 128-130.
  • Ferguson, L., 1988. The Fossil Cliffs of Joggins. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum.
  • Gibling, M.R., 1987. A Classic Carboniferous Section: Joggins, Nova Scotia. Geological Society America Field Guide, Northeastern Section. 5(88), pp. 409-414.
  • Godfrey, S. J. and Holmes, R.B. 1989. A Tetrapod Lower Jaw From the Pennsylvanian (Westphalian A) of Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 26, pp. 1036-1040. 
  • Grantham, R.G., and Hacquebard, P.A. 1987.  Field Trip Guide, Parrsboro and Joggins Areas, Nova Scotia, Canada. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, United States, p. 19. 
  • Hower, J.C.,  Calder, J.H.,  Eble, C.F., Scott, A.C.,  Robertson, J.D., and Blanchard, L.J. 1996. Petrology, geochemistry, and palynology of Joggins Formation (Westphalian A) coals, Cumberland Basin, Nova Scotia. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. 80 (9), p. 1525.
  • Logan, W.E., 1845. A Section of the Nova Scotia Coal Measures As Developed At the Joggins, on the Bay of Fundy, in Descending Order, From the Neighbourhood of the West Ragged Reef to Minudie, Reduced to Vertical Thickness. Geological Survey of Canada Report, Appendix pp. 92-159.
  • Lyell, C. 1843. On the Upright Fossil-trees Found at Different Levels in the Coal Strata of Cumberland, Nova Scotia. Geological Society of London Proceedings. 45, pp. 353-356.
  • Lyell, C. and J.W. Dawson. 1853. On the remains of a reptile (Dendrepeton acadianum Wyman and Owen), and of a land shell discovered in the interior of an erect fossil tree in the coal measures of Nova Scotia. Geological Society of London Quarterly Journal. 9, pp. 58-63.
  • Matthew, G.F., 1903. On Batrachian and Other Footprints From the Coal Measures of Joggins N.S. Natural History Society of New Brunswick. B.(21), pp. 103-108.
  • Milner, A.R. 1982. A Small Temnospondyl Amphibian From the Lower Pennsylvanian of Nova Scotia. Journal of Paleontology. 56, pp. 1302-1305.
  • Mossman, D.J. and Grantham, R.G. 1996. A recently discovered amphibian trackway (Dromillopus quadrifidus) at Joggins, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 33(5), pp. 710-714.
  • Owen, R. 1862. Descriptions of Specimens of Fossil Reptilia Discovered in the Coal Measures of the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London. 18, pp. 238-244.
  • Reisz, R.R., and Modest, S.P. 1996. Archerpeton anthracos from the Joggins Formation of Nova Scotia: a microsaur, not a reptile. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 33 (5), pp. 703-709.
  • Ryan, R.J., and Boehner, R.C., 1990. Stratigraphic section of the Joggins area. Halifax: Dept. of Mines and Energy Open File Report 90-001
  • Skilliter, D.M., Calder, J.H., and  Roy, D.C. 1997. Investigation of marine influence in the Joggins Formation of Nova Scotia. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America. 29 (1), p. 80.
  • Steen, M. 1934. The amphibian fauna from the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. Zoological Society of London Proceedings p. 465-504.
  • Whiteaves, J.F., 1881. Note on the Recent Discovery of Large Uniolike Shells in the Coal Measures at South Joggins, N.S. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society, Canada. 11(4), pp. 21-24.
BRULE 
  • Calder, J.H., A.P. Hunt, and H.E.K. Van Allen. 1997. Trackways of gregarious tetrapods in a walchian forest from the Permo-Carboniferous of Nova Scotia; Ichnofacies and Ichnotaxonomy of the Terrestrial Permian. Proceedings, Inst. Of Geoscience and Geiseltalmuseum, Martin Luther University, Hall, Germany. March 20-23, 1997. 
PARRSBORO 
  • Fowell, S.J. 1992. Rare palynofloras from the Fundy Basin; implications for a regional Triassic/ Jurassic boundary event. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 24, (7), pp. 95-96.
  • Galton, P.M. and Olsen, P.E. 1977. Triassic - Jurassic tetrapod extinctions: Are they real. Science 197, pp. 983-986. 
  • Grantham, R.G., and Hacquebard, P.A. 1987.  Field Trip Guide, Parrsboro and Joggins Areas, Nova Scotia, Canada. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, United States, p. 19. 
  • Olsen, P.E. 1986. Discovery of Earliest Jurassic Reptile Assemblages from Nova Scotia: Imply Catastrophic End to the Triassic. Lamont (Newsletter) 12, pp. 1-3.
  • Olsen, P.E., N.H. Shubin and M.H. Anders. 1987. New early Jurassic Tetrapod assemblages constrain Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod extinction event. Science 237, pp. 1025-1028.
  • Shubin, N.H., A.W. Crompton, H.-D. Sues and P.E. Olsen. 1991. New Fossil Evidence on the Sister-group of Mammals and Early Mesozoic Faunal Distributions. Science 251, pp. 1063-1065.
  • Sues, H.D., Olsen, P.E., and Shubin, N.H.  1987. A diapsid faunule from the Lower Jurassic of Nova Scotia, Canada. In: Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems. Currie, P.J., and Koster, E.H. (Editors). Occasional Paper of the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology 3, pp. 203-205. 
  • Sues, H.D., Olsen, P.E., and Shubin, N.H. 1989. Presence of the sphenodontian lepidosaur Clevosaurus in the Early Jurassic of Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9 (3), p. 40A.

  • Sues, H.-D., N.H. Shubin, and P.E. Olsen. 1996. On the Cranial Structure of A New Protosuchid (Archosauria:Crocodyliformes) from the McCoy Brook Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 16(1), pp. 34-41.
  • Sues, H.-D., N.H. Shubin, and P.E. Olsen. 1994. A New Sphenodontian (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) From the McCoy Brook Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 14(3), pp. 327-340.
  • Tanner, L.H., and Hubert, J.F. 1992. Depositional facies, palaeogeography and palaeoclimatology of the Lower Jurassic McCoy Brook Formation, Fundy Rift basin, Nova Scotia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 96, (3-4), pp. 261-280.
  • Thurston, H. 1994. Dawning of the Dinosaurs Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum and Nimbus Publishing Limited.
EAST MILFORD 
  • Harington, C.R.,  Grant, D.R., and  Mott, R.J. 1993. The Hillsborough, New Brunswick mastodon and comments on other Pleistocene mastodon fossils from Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30 (6), pp. 1242-1253.
  • Holman, J.A. and Clouthier, S.G. 1995. Pleistocene herpetofaunal remains from the East Milford Mastodon site (ca. 70 000 - 80 000 BP), Halifax County, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32 (2), pp. 210-215. 
SYDNEY COALFIELD 
  • Bell, W.A. 1938. Fossil Flora of the Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 155. Ottawa: King's Printer. 
  • Calder, J.H., Eble, C.F., and Scott, A.C. 1995. The Harbour Seam at Table Head, Sydney Basin; a Westphalian D mire margin and its succession to clastic wetland forest. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 27 (6), p. 141.
  • Calder, J.H., Gibling, M.R., Eble, C.F., Scott, A.C., and MacNeil, D.J. 1996. The Westphalian D fossil lepidodendrid forest at Table Head, Sydney Basin, Nova Scotia; sedimentology, paleoecology and floral response to changing edaphic conditions. In: Geology and Petrology of Appalachian Coals; a Selection of Papers From the Symposium. Hower, J.C. and  Eble, C.F. (editors). International Journal of Coal Geology, 31 (1-4), Elsevier. Amsterdam, International. pp. 277-313.
  • Copeland, M.J. 1969. The Arthropod Fauna of the upper Carboniferous Rocks of the Maritime Provinces. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 286. Ottawa: Queen's Printer. 
  • Dawson, J.W. 1861. Note on a Carpolite from the Coal Formation of Cape Breton. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London 17, pp. 525-526.
  • Fletcher, H. 1900. Descriptive note on the Sydney coal field, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to accompany a revised edition of the geological map of the coal field. Ottawa: Queen's Printer. 
  • Gao, Z., and Zodrow, E.L. 1990. A new strobilus Tetraphyllostrobus broganensis gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Carboniferous, Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 66 (1-2), pp. 3-11.
  • Gao, Z., and Zodrow, E.L. 1991. SEM study on the cuticular structure of some medullosan foliage from the Upper Carboniferous of the Sydney Coalfield. Atlantic Geology, 27 (2), p. 152.
  • Gastaldo, R.A. and Zodrow, E.L. "Studies on North American Pecopterids. IV." in Diversity and Stratigraphic Occurences in the Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia. 1982. 
  • Gibling, M.R., Saunders, K., and Tibert, N.E. 1995. Patterns of coal distribution in Upper Carboniferous cyclothems of the Sydney Basin, Nova Scotia. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America,  27 (6), p. 32.
  • Kalkreuth, W.D., Cameron, A., Fowler, M., Utting, J. Gibling, M.R., White, J.C., and Marchioni, D. 1993. The organic petrology, palynology and geochemistry of organic-rich rocks associated with Carboniferous coal seams in the Sydney Basin, Atlantic Canada.  In: Carboniferous to Jurassic Pangea: First International Symposium, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Program and Abstracts. Beauchamp, B., Embry, A., and Glass, D. (Editors). p. 154.
  • Kumaran, K.P.N., and Zodrow, E.L. 1987. Upper Carboniferous palynology of Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia, Canada. Compte Rendu, Congres Interntional de Stratigraphie et de Geologie du Carbonifere, 11, pp. 379-380. 
  • Marchioni, D., Kalkreuth, W., Utting, J., and Fowler, M. 1994. Petrographical, palynological, and geochemical analyses of the Hub and Harbour seams, Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia, Canada: implications for facies development.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 106 (1-4), pp. 241-270.
  • Thibaudeau, S.A., Medioli, F.S., Scott, D.B. 1988. Paleoecological implications, significance and potential uses of brackish-water foraminifera from cyclic, Carboniferous coal-bearing strata, Sydney Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada. Geological Society of America, Abstracts With Programs, 20 (7), pp. 169-170.
  • White, J.C., Gibling, M.R., Kalkreuth, W.D. 1994. The Backpit seam, Sydney Mines Formation, Nova Scotia: a record of peat accumulation and drowning in a Westphalian coastal mire. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 106 (1-4), pp. 223-239.
  • Wightman, W. G., Scott, D.B., Medioli, F.S., and Gibling, M.R. 1994. Agglutinated foraminifera and thecamoebians from the Late Carboniferous Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia: paleoecology, paleoenvironments and paleogeographical implications.
  • Zodrow, E.L. and K. McCandlish 1978. Distribution of Linopteris obliqua in the Sydney Coalfield, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Paleontographica, Abstracts. B, 168, pp. 16.
  • Zodrow, E.L. and K. McCandlish 1980. Upper Carboniferous Fossil Flora of Nova Scotia. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum.
  • Zodrow, E.L. and K. McCandlish 1980. On a Trigonocarpus species attached to Neuropteris (Mixoneura) flexuosa from Sydney Coalfield, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 30, pp. 57-66.

  • Zodrow, E.L. 1982. Recent Paleobotanical Studies, Sydney Coalfield, Cape Breton Island, N.S. Third North American Paleontological Convention, Proceedings. 2, pp. 593-598.
  • Zodrow, E.L. and K. McCandlish 1982. Oligocarpia bellii nov. Spec. from the Middle Upper Carboniferous of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Paleontographica, Abstracts. B, 181, pp. 109-117.
  • Zodrow, E.L. and C.J.Cleal. 1985. Phyto- and chronostratigraphical correlations between the late Pennsylvanian Morien Group (Sydney, Nova Scotia) and the Silesian Pennant Measures (South Wales). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 22, pp. 1465-1473

  • Zodrow, E.L. 1985. Odontopteris Brongniart in the Upper Carboniferous of Canada. Palaeontographica Abstracts B. 196, pp. 79-110.
  • Zodrow, E.L. and G.M. Vasey. 1986. Mabou mines Section: Biostratigraphy and correlation (Pennsylvanian Pictou Group, Nova Scotia, Canada). Journal of Palaeontology. 60, pp. 208-232.
  • Zodrow, E.L. 1987. Cyatheoid morphospecies (Pecopteris Brongniart, 1822) in proximity of the Westphalian D - Cantabrian boundary in Sydney Coalfield of Nova Scotia, Canada. Compte Rendu, Congres Interntional de Stratigraphie et de Geologie du Carbonifere, 11, pp. 137-138.

  • Zodrow, E.L. 1988. Determination of the Westphalian/Stephanian boundary by Sphenophyll events in the Morien Group, Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia. In: Mines and Minerals Branch Report of Activities 1987, Part B. MacDonald, D.R., and Brown, Y. (Editors). Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy (Halifax) Report, pp. 221-227. 
  • Zodrow, E.L., and Cleal, C.J. 1988. Structure of the Carboniferous pteridosperm frond Neuropteris ovata Hoffmann. Palaeontographica. Abteilung B: Palaeophytologie, 208 (4-6), pp. 105-124. 
  • Zodrow, E.L. 1989. Summary of macrofloral biostratigraphy of Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geology, 25 (1), pp. 73-79.

  • Zodrow, E.L., A. Beaton, and G. Smith. 1989. Note on a find of a crossopterygian head (Pisces), upper Westphalian D, Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia, Canada. Atlantic Geology. 25, pp. 125-127.
  • Zodrow, E.L. 1989. Revising Pecopteris (Asterotheca) acadica Bell, 1962 (Upper Carboniferous plants, Nova Scotia, Canada). Program with Abstracts - Geological Association of Canada; Mineralogical Association of Canada; Canadian Geophysical Union, Joint Annual Meeting, 14, pp. 14-15.

  • Zodrow, E.L. 1989. Implication of recent macrofloral collection to the biostratigraphy of the Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia, Canada (Carboniferous, Westphalian C to Cantbrian). Atlantic Geology, 25 (2), p. 172.
  • Zodrow, E.L. 1991. Leeites oblongifolis gen. et sp. nov (sphenophyll, Carboniferous, Canada). Palaeontographica Abstracts B. 223, pp. 61-80.
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