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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis.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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Berry, W.B.N. 1967. Monograptids from the MacAdam Formation (Silurian),
Nova Scotia. Journal of Paleontology. 41 (4), pp. 965-969.
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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.
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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 Sciences
7, pp. 14-17.
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Honeyman, D. 1864. Geology of Arisaig, Nova Scotia. Geological Society (1864), pp. 333-345.
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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. 1975. New Silurian Gastropods from Nova Scotia and Britian.
Journal of Earth Science, 12 (9), p. 1524.
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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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Pickerill, R.K. 1989. Bergaueria perata Prantl, 1945 from the Silurian
of Cape George, Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geology, 25 (3), pp. 191-197.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cumming, L.M. 1957. Report on Fossils from the Torbrook-Nictaux area,
N.S. G.S.C. Report, Section of Stratigraphic Palaeontology, Ottawa.
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Cumming, L.M. 1959. Report on Fossils from the Bear River area, N.S.
G.S.C. Report, Section of Stratigraphic Palaeontology, Ottawa.
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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.
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Shergold, J.H. 19667. A reappraisal of the North American species of the
Siluro-Devonian trilobite genus Scotiella. Postilla. Number 112.
LOWER CARBONIFEROUS (MISSISSIPPIAN)
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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. G.S.C. Memoir 314.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Edgecombe, G.D. 1988. The first report of macroloxoceratine cephalopod
from the North American Mississippian. Journal of Paleontology,
62 (2), pp. 309-311.
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Honeyman, D. 1877-78. Nova Scotia Geology - Precarboniferous & Lower
Carboniferous. Nova Scotia Institute of Science, 4, p. 439.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Baird, D. and Carroll, R.L. 1967. Romeriscus, the Oldest Known Reptile.
Science. 157(3784), pp. 56-58.
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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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Bell, W.A. 1944. Carboniferous Rocks and Fossils Floras of Northern
Nova Scotia. Ottawa: Edmond Clouthier.
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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, pp. 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. and Baird, D. 1968. The carboniferous amphibian tudianus
(Eosaurus) and the distinction between microsaurs and reptiles. American
Museum of Natural History Novitates, No. 2337.
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Carroll, R.L. and Baird, D. 1972. Carboniferous stem-reptiles of the family
Romeriidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard . 143(5).
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Carroll, R.L. A Lomnoscelid Reptile from the Middle Pennsylvanian. Journal
of Paleontology. 41(5), pp. 1256-1261.
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Carroll, R.L. 1967. Labyrinthodonts from the Joggins Formation. Journal
of Paleontology 41(1), pp. 111-142.
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Carroll, R.L. 1963. The Earliest Reptiles. Journal of the Linnaean Society (Zoology).
45(304), pp. 61-83.
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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.. 1969. A Middle Pennsylvanian Captorhinomorph, and the Inter-relationships
of Primitive Reptiles. Journal of Paleontology. 43(1), pp. 151-170.
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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. 1854. On the Coal-measures of the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. Geological
Society of London Quarterly, 10, pp. 1-42.
8:1-12, 81-92, 149-160, 161-175, 268-295.
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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. 1861. Note on a Carpolite from the Coal Formation of Cape
Breton. Geological Society of London Quarterly, 17, pp. 525-526.
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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
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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Dawson, J.W. 1890. On new plants from the Erian and Carboniferous, and
on the characters and affinities of Paleozoic Gymnosperms. Montreal:
Dawson Bros.
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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. 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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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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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 Occurrences in the Sydney Coalfield,
Nova Scotia. 1982.
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Gibling, M.R., 1987. A Classic Carboniferous Section: Joggins, Nova Scotia.
Geological Society of America Field Guide, Northeastern Section. 5(88), pp. 409-414.
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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.
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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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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.
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Honeyman, D. 1887-88. Carboniferous flora with attached spirobes. Nova Scotia
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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
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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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Lyons, P.C., Cross, A.T., Gao, Z., Gillis, K., Calder, J.H., Zodrow, E.L.,
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balls) in the Foord Seam (Westphalian C, Upper Carboniferous), Stellarton,
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Marchioni, D., Gibling. M., and Kalkreuth, W. 1996. Petrography and depositional
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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
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Matthew, G.F., 1903. On Batrachian and Other Footprints From the Coal Measures
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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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Owen, R.1862. Descriptions of Specimens of Fossil Reptilia Discovered in
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Ryan, R.J., and Boehner, R.C., 1990. Stratigraphic Section of the Joggins
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Steen, M. 1934. The amphibian fauna from the South Joggins, Nova Scotia.
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Whiteaves, J.F., 1881. Note on the Recent Discovery of Large Uniolike Shells
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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, p. 16.
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Zodrow, E.L. and K. McCandlish 1980. Upper Carboniferous Fossil Flora
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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
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30, pp. 57-66.
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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. 1982. Recent Paleobotanical Studies, Sydney Coalfield, Cape
Breton Island, N.S. Third North American Paleontological Convention,
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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 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. 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. 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.
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Zodrow, E.L. 1987. Cyatheoid morphospecies (Pecopteris Brongniart, 1822)
in proximity of the Westphalian D - Cantabrian boundary in Sydney Coalfield
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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.
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Zodrow, E.L., and Cleal, C.J. 1988. Structure of the Carboniferous pteridosperm
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Zodrow, E.L. 1989. Summary of macrofloral biostratigraphy of Sydney Coalfield,
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Zodrow, E.L. 1989. Revising Pecopteris (Asterotheca) acadica Bell, 1962
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Zodrow, E.L., A. Beaton, and G. Smith. 1989. Note on a find of a crossopterygian
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Zodrow, E.L. 1989. Implication of recent macrofloral collection to the
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Zodrow, E.L. 1991. Leeites oblongifolis gen. et sp. nov (sphenophyll, Carboniferous,
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PERMIAN
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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;
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Ryan, R.J. 1987. Fossil myriapod trails in the Permo-Carboniferous strata
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Ryan, R.J., Boehner, R.C., Calder, J.H., Dolby, G. 1990. New palynological
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TRIASSIC/JURASSIC
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Cameron, B., and Jones, R.J. 1990. Non-marine fossils of the Late Triassic-Early
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Fowell, S.J. and Traverse, A. 1995. Palynology and age of the upper
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Grantham, R.G. 1989. Dinosaur tracks and megaflutes in the Jurassic
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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.
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Olsen, P.E., and Baird, D. 1986. The ichnogenus Atreipus and its significance
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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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