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References by Time Period
If you are interested in knowing more about the geological history of Nova Scotia and the research that has helped describe it, you may wish to refer to some of these publications. 

CAMBRIAN 

  • Hutchinson, R.D. 1952. The Stratigraphy and Trilobite Faunas of the Cambrian Sedimentary Rocks of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. G.S.C. Memoir 263. Ottawa: Queen's Printer. 
  • Landing, E., and Murphy, J.B. 1991. Upper Precambrian(?) through Lower Cambrian of mainland Nova Scotia; faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision. Journal of Paleontology, 65 (3), pp. 382-396.
  • Landing, E. 1991. Upper Precambrian through Lower Cambrian of Cape Breton Island; faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision. Journal of Paleontology, 65 (4), pp. 570-595.
  • Landing, E. 1995. Upper Placentian-Branchian series of mainland Nova Scotia (Middle-Upper Lower Cambrian): faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision. Journal of Paleontology, 69 (3), pp. 475-495.
  • Pratt, B.R. and Waldron, J.W.F. 1991. A Middle Cambrian trilobite faunule from the Meguma Group of Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 28, pp. 1843-1853.
SILURIAN 
  • Bambach, R.K. 1993. Bivalves and storms; tracking relative sea-level through the Silurian in a shallow shelf sea. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 25 (6), pp. 360-361.
  • 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 Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis.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.
  • Berry, W.B.N. 1967. Monograptids from the MacAdam Formation (Silurian), Nova Scotia. Journal of Paleontology. 41 (4), pp. 965-969.
  • Donovan, S.K., and Pickerill, R.K. 1994. Crinoid columns preserved in an upright position in the Upper Silurian of  Nova Scotia: taphonomic implications. Geological Society of America Abstracts With Programs, 26 (5), p. 13.
  • 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 Sciences 7, pp. 14-17. 
  • Honeyman, D. 1864. Geology of Arisaig, Nova Scotia. Geological Society (1864), pp. 333-345. 
  • 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. 1975. New Silurian Gastropods from Nova Scotia and Britian. Journal of Earth Science, 12 (9), p. 1524.
  • 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.
  • Pickerill, R.K. 1989. Bergaueria perata Prantl, 1945 from the Silurian of Cape George, Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geology, 25 (3), pp. 191-197.
  • 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.
  • Strother, P.K. and Beck, J.H. 1992. Non-marine microfossils from a Silurian section in Nova Scotia. Geological Society of America Abstracts With Programs, 24 (7), p. 270.
DEVONIAN 
  • Bouyx, E., Blaise, J. , Brice, D., Gourvennec, R., Lardeux, H., and Le Menn, J. 1992. Paleogeographic implications of northern Gondwanan and Rhenish associations of Devonian faunas of the Meguma zone. Comptes Rendus de l’Academie des Sciences, Serie 2, Mechanique, Physique, Chimie, Sciences de l’Univers, Sciences de la Terre, 315 (3), pp. 337-343.
  • Bouyx, E., Blaise, J. , Brice, D., Dégardin,  J.M., Goujet, D., Gourvennec, R., Le Menn, J.,  Lardeux, H., Morzadec, P., and Paris, F. 1997. Biostratigraphie et paléobiogéographie du Siluro-Dévonien de la zone de Meguma (Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34 (10), pp. 1295-1309.
  • Bruck, P. M., Forbes, W. H., Nance, D., and Pickerell, R. K. 1985. Beaconites antarcticus in the (?Middle) Late Devonian McAras Brook Formation, Cape George, Nova Scotia. Maritime Sediments and Atlantic Geology, 21, pp. 87-96.
  • Cumming, L.M. 1957. Report on Fossils from the Torbrook-Nictaux area, N.S. G.S.C. Report, Section of Stratigraphic Palaeontology, Ottawa.
  • Cumming, L.M. 1959. Report on Fossils from the Bear River area, N.S. G.S.C. Report, Section of Stratigraphic Palaeontology, Ottawa.
  • Martel, T.A., McGragor, C.D., and Utting, J. 1993. Stratigraphic significance of Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous miospores from the type area of the Horton Group, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30 (5), pp. 1091-1098.
  • Shergold, J.H. 19667. A reappraisal of the North American species of the Siluro-Devonian trilobite genus Scotiella. Postilla. Number 112.
LOWER CARBONIFEROUS (MISSISSIPPIAN) 
  • 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. G.S.C. Memoir 314. 
  • Boehner, R.C., Giles, P.S., Murray, D.A., and Ryan, R.J. 1988. Carbonate buildups of the Gays River Formation, Lower Carboniferous Windsor Group, Nova Scotia. In: Reefs: Canada and Adjacent Areas. Geldsetzer, H.H.J., James, N.P., and Tebbutt, G.E. (Editors). Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 13, pp. 609-621.
  • Boehner, R.C. 1989. Carbonate buildups in the Lower Carboniferous Horton and Windsor groups (late Tournaisian-Visean) of Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geology, 25 (2), pp. 154-155.
  • Cameron, B,.Van Dommelen, R., White, P.D., Domanski, D., Rogers, D., and Jones, J.R. 1992. Vertebrate fossils from the middle member of 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. 48.
  • Dewey, C.P., and Fahraeus, R.E. 1987. Taxonomy of Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Mississippian strata of Maritime Canada. Geologica and Palaeontologica, 21, pp. 93-135.
  • Edgecombe, G.D. 1988. The first report of macroloxoceratine cephalopod from the North American Mississippian. Journal of Paleontology, 62 (2), pp. 309-311.
  • Honeyman, D. 1877-78. Nova Scotia Geology - Precarboniferous & Lower Carboniferous. Nova Scotia Institute of Science, 4, p. 439. 
  • Honeyman, D. 1888. The Nautilis of the Brookfield Limestone: Nautilis Brookfield. Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotia Institute of Natural Sciences, 7, pp 13. 
  • Martel, T.A., McGragor, C.D., and Utting, J. 1993. Stratigraphic significance of Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous miospores from the type area of the Horton Group, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30 (5), pp. 1091-1098.
  • Sarjeant, W.A.S. and D.J. Mossman. 1978. Vertebrate footprints from the Carboniferous sediments of Nova Scotia: A historical review and description of newly discovered forms. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 23, pp. 279-306.
  • Utting, J. 1991. Palynology and thermal maturity of Lower Carboniferous oil shales of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Palynology, 15, pp.253-254.
UPPER CARBONIFEROUS (PENNSYLVANIAN) 
  • Baird, D. and Carroll, R.L. 1967. Romeriscus, the Oldest Known Reptile. Science. 157(3784), pp. 56-58. 
  • Bell, W.A. 1914. Joggins Carboniferous Section, Nova Scotia. Geological Survey of Canada, Summary Report for 1912, pp. 360-371.
  • Bell, W.A. 1944. Carboniferous Rocks and Fossils Floras of Northern Nova Scotia. Ottawa: Edmond Clouthier. 
  • 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, pp. 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. and Baird, D. 1968. The carboniferous amphibian tudianus (Eosaurus) and the distinction between microsaurs and reptiles. American Museum of Natural History Novitates, No. 2337. 
  • Carroll, R.L. and Baird, D. 1972. Carboniferous stem-reptiles of the family Romeriidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard . 143(5). 

  • Carroll, R.L. A Lomnoscelid Reptile from the Middle Pennsylvanian. Journal of Paleontology. 41(5), pp. 1256-1261. 
  • Carroll, R.L. 1967. Labyrinthodonts from the Joggins Formation. Journal of Paleontology 41(1), pp. 111-142. 
  • Carroll, R.L. 1963. The Earliest Reptiles. Journal of the Linnaean Society (Zoology). 45(304), pp. 61-83. 

  • 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.. 1969. A Middle Pennsylvanian Captorhinomorph, and the Inter-relationships of Primitive Reptiles. Journal of Paleontology. 43(1), pp. 151-170. 
  • 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. 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.
  • 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. 1861. Note on a Carpolite from the Coal Formation of Cape Breton. Geological Society of London Quarterly, 17, pp. 525-526.
  • Dawson, J.W. 1863. Air Breathers of the Coal Period; A Descriptive Account of the Remains of Land Animals Found in the Coal Formation of Nova Scotia. Montreal; London; Dawson; H. Balliere 
  • Dawson, J.W. 1866. Conditions of the deposition of coal as illustrated by the coal-formation of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Report of the Journal of the Geological Society, London, pp. 99-169 
  • 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.
  • Dawson, J.W. 1877. Note on a Specimen of Diplozylon from the Coal Formation of Nova Scotia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London. 33, pp. 836-842. 
  • Dawson, J.W. 1888. On the Eozoic and Paleozoic Rocks of the Atlantic Coast of Canada, in Comparison with those of Western Europe and of the Interior of America. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (1888), pp. 797-817. 
  • Dawson, J.W. 1890. On new plants from the Erian and Carboniferous, and on the characters and affinities of Paleozoic Gymnosperms. Montreal: Dawson Bros. 
  • 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. 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. 
  • 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
  • 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 Occurrences in the Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia. 1982. 
  • Gibling, M.R., 1987. A Classic Carboniferous Section: Joggins, Nova Scotia. Geological Society of America Field Guide, Northeastern Section. 5(88), pp. 409-414.
  • Gibling, M.R., and Wightman, W.G. 1994. Palaeovalleys and protozoan assemblages in a Late Carboniferous cyclothem, Sydney Basin, Nova Scotia. Sedimentology, 41 (4), pp. 699-719.
  • 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.
  • Godfrey, S. J. and Holmes, R.B. 1989. A Tetrapod Lower Jaw From the Pennsylvanian (Westphalian A) of Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26, pp. 1036-1040. 
  • Honeyman, D. 1887-88. Carboniferous flora with attached spirobes. Nova Scotia Institute of Science, VII, pp. 93-??.
  • 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. 
  • 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.
  • Lyons, P.C., Cross, A.T., Gao, Z., Gillis, K., Calder, J.H., Zodrow, E.L., and Congdon, R.D. 1994. Discovery of in-situ carbonate petrifactions (coal balls) in the Foord Seam (Westphalian C, Upper Carboniferous), Stellarton, Nova Scotia: the implications for origin of sulphur in coal. In: Studies in Eastern Energy and the Environment. Schultz, A.P., and Rader, E.K. (Editors). American Association of Petroleum Geologists Eastern Section Special Volume, Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Publication, 132, pp. 10-181.
  • Marchioni, D., Gibling. M., and Kalkreuth, W. 1996. Petrography and depositional environment of coal seams in the Carboniferous Morien Group, Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences,  33 (6), pp. 863-874.
  • 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.
  • Matthew, G.F., 1903. On Batrachian and Other Footprints From the Coal Measures of Joggins, Nova Scotia. 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Steen, M. 1934. The amphibian fauna from the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. Zoological Society of London Proceedings pp. 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.
  • Zodrow, E.L. and K. McCandlish 1978. Distribution of Linopteris obliqua in the Sydney Coalfield, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Paleontographica Abstracts B, 168, p. 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. 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. 1982. Recent Paleobotanical Studies, Sydney Coalfield, Cape Breton Island, N.S. Third North American Paleontological Convention, Proceedings 2, pp. 593-598.
  • Zodrow, E.L. 1985. Odontopteris Brongniart in the Upper Carboniferous of Canada. Palaeontographica Abstracts B. 196, pp. 79-110.
  • 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. 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. 1986. Succession of paleobotanical events: evidence for mid-Westphalian D floral changes, Morien Group (late Pennsylvanian, Nova Scotia). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 47 (3-4), pp. 293-326. 
  • 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. 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., 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. 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.
PERMIAN 
  • 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. 
  • Ryan, R.J. 1987. Fossil myriapod trails in the Permo-Carboniferous strata of northern Nova Scotia, Canada. In: Mines and Minerals Branch Report of Activities. Bates, J.L., and MacDonald, D.R. (Editors). Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy (Halifax), p. 196.
  • Ryan, R.J., Boehner, R.C., Calder, J.H., Dolby, G. 1990. New palynological age dates, zonations, and stratigraphy in the Permo-Carboniferous strata of the Cumberland Basin , Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geology, 27 (2), p. 186.
TRIASSIC/JURASSIC 
  • Cameron, B., and Jones, R.J. 1990. Non-marine fossils of the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Fundy Group of the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geology 26, (2), p. 167.
  • 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.
  • Fowell, S.J. 1993. Evidence for regional palynofloral extictions at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary.  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. 99. 
  • Fowell, S.J. and Traverse, A. 1995.  Palynology and age of the upper Blomidon Formation, Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 86 (3-4), pp. 211-233.
  • Galton, P.M. and Olsen, P.E. 1977. Triassic - Jurassic tetrapod extinctions: Are they real. Science 197, pp. 983-986. 
  • Grantham, R.G. 1989.  Dinosaur tracks and megaflutes in the Jurassic of Nova Scotia.  In: Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Gillette, D.D., and Lockley, M.G. (Editors). Cambridge Univ. Press. Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 281-284.
  • Jansa, L.F.,  Pratt, B.R., and Dromart, G. 1988. Deep water thrombolite mounds from the Upper Jurassic of offshore Nova Scotia. In: Reefs; Canada and Adjacent Areas. Geldsetzer, H.H.J., James, N.P., and Tebbutt, G.E.  (Editors), Memoir - Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. 13, pp.  725-735. 
  • Olsen, P.E., and Baird, D. 1986. The ichnogenus Atreipus and its significance for Triassic biostratigraphy. In: The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs; Faunal Change across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary. Padian, K. (Editor).  Cambridge Univ. Press. Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 61-67.
  • 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. 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.
  • Sues, H.D. 1995. Triassic and Early Jurassic tetrapods from the Newark Supergroup of eastern North America. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 27 (1), p. 85.
  • 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.
  • 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
PLEISTOCENE 
  • Dawson, J.W. and Penhallow, D.P. 1890. On the Pleistocene Flora of Canada. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. (1890), pp. 311-334. 
  • Harington, C.R. 1990. Vertebrates of the last interglaciation in Canada; a review, with new data. Geographie Physique et Quaternaire, 44 (3), pp. 375-387.
  • 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.
  • Honeyman, D. 1887. Glacial geology of Nova Scotia. Halifax: Nova Scotian Institute of Science. 
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