If you are interested in further reading on the fossils and geological
history of Nova Scotia, check out some of these papers.
ARISAIG
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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.
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Beck, J.H. 1998. Paleopalynology of the Silurian Arisaig section, Nova
Scotia. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
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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.
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Honeyman, D. 1864. Geology of Arisaig, Nova Scotia. Geological Society,
p. 333-345.
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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.
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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.
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McLearn, F.H. 1924. Paleontology of the Silurian Arisaig, Nova Scotia.
Geological Survey of Canada Memoir, 118, p. 180.
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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.
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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
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Bell, W.A. 1929. Horton-Windsor District, Nova Scotia. Ottawa: F.A.
Acland.
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Bell, W.A.. 1960. Mississippian Horton Group of Type Windsor-Horton
District, Nova Scotia. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 314.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Bell, W.A. 1914. Joggins Carboniferous Section, Nova Scotia. Geological
Survey of Canada, Summary Report for 1912, pp. 360-371.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Carroll, R.L. 1967. Labyrinthodants from the Joggins Formation. Journal
of Paleontology 41(1), pp. 111-142.
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Carroll, R.L. 1966. Microsaurs from the Westphalian B of Joggins, Nova
Scotia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 177, pp. 63-97.
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Carroll, R.L. 1967. A Limnoscelid Reptile From the Middle Pennsylvanian.
Journal of Paleontology 41(1), pp. 1256-1261.
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Dawson, J.W. 1854. On the Coal-measures of the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. Geological
Society of London Quarterly 10, pp. 1-42.
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Dawson, J.W. 1861. On an Erect Sigillaria from the South Joggins, Nova
Scotia. Geological
Society of London Quarterly 17, pp. 522-524.
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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.
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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.
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Dawson, J.W. 1891. On New Specimens of Dendrerpeton acadianum with
Remarks on other Carnivorous Amphibians. Geological Magazine. 8, pp. 145-156.
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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.
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Ferguson, L., 1966. The Recovery of Some Large Track-bearing Slabs From
Joggins, Nova Scotia. Maritime Sediments. 2(3), pp. 128-130.
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Ferguson, L., 1988. The Fossil Cliffs of Joggins. Halifax: Nova Scotia
Museum.
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Gibling, M.R., 1987. A Classic Carboniferous Section: Joggins, Nova Scotia.
Geological Society America Field Guide, Northeastern Section. 5(88), pp. 409-414.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Milner, A.R. 1982. A Small Temnospondyl Amphibian From the Lower Pennsylvanian
of Nova Scotia. Journal of Paleontology. 56, pp. 1302-1305.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Steen, M. 1934. The amphibian fauna from the South Joggins, Nova Scotia.
Zoological Society of London Proceedings p. 465-504.
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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
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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
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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.
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Galton, P.M. and Olsen, P.E. 1977. Triassic - Jurassic tetrapod extinctions:
Are they real. Science 197, pp. 983-986.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thurston, H. 1994. Dawning of the Dinosaurs Halifax: Nova Scotia
Museum and Nimbus Publishing Limited.
EAST MILFORD
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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.
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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
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Bell, W.A. 1938. Fossil Flora of the Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia.
Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 155. Ottawa: King's Printer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Zodrow, E.L. and K. McCandlish 1980. Upper Carboniferous Fossil Flora
of Nova Scotia. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum.
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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.
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Zodrow, E.L. 1982. Recent Paleobotanical Studies, Sydney Coalfield, Cape
Breton Island, N.S. Third North American Paleontological Convention,
Proceedings. 2, pp. 593-598.
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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.
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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
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Zodrow, E.L. 1985. Odontopteris Brongniart in the Upper Carboniferous of
Canada. Palaeontographica Abstracts B. 196, pp. 79-110.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Zodrow, E.L. 1989. Summary of macrofloral biostratigraphy of Sydney Coalfield,
Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geology, 25 (1), pp. 73-79.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Zodrow, E.L. 1991. Leeites oblongifolis gen. et sp. nov (sphenophyll, Carboniferous,
Canada). Palaeontographica Abstracts B. 223, pp. 61-80.
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