Geologic formation in Canada
The Battery Point Formation is a geologic formation in Quebec . It preserves fossils dating back to the early Emsian to early Eifelian the lower Devonian period .
Description
A part of the Gaspé Sandstones , the Battery Point Formation is believed to have been deposited in a fluvial environment based on the presence of rootlets as well as the abundance of trough and planar-tabular cross bedding , and the lower part resembles modern braided systems more than meandering systems. It rests unconformably on the shallow marine sandstones of the York River Formation (the basal unit of the Gaspé Sandstones and making the Battery Point Formation the first continental unit of the sequence), transitioning upwards into the Malbaie Formation , and is 2,300 meters (7,550 feet) thick.
Fossil content
Limited intervals in the lower part of the formation contain remains of a few brachiopods and bivalves , though marine fauna is not known from other parts of the formation. Plant and freshwater fish fossils are also known.
See also
References
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^ Burrow, Carole J.; Turner, Susan; Maisey, John G.; Desbiens, Sylvain; Miller, Randall F. (2017). "Spines of the stem chondrichthyan Doliodus latispinosus (Whiteaves) comb. nov. from the Lower Devonian of eastern Canada" . Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences . 54 (12): 1248. doi :10.1139/cjes-2017-0059 . hdl :1807/78890 . ISSN 0008-4077 .
^ Durieux, Thibault; Lopez, Madeleine A.; Bronson, Allison W.; Tomescu, Alexandru M. F. (October 2021). "A new phylogeny of the cladoxylopsid plexus: contribution of an early cladoxylopsid from the Lower Devonian (Emsian) of Quebec" . American Journal of Botany . 108 (10): 2066–2095. doi :10.1002/ajb2.1752 . ISSN 0002-9122 . PMID 34664712 . S2CID 239028044 .
^ Pfeiler, Kelly C.; Tomescu, Alexandru M.F. (2017-10-09). "An Early Devonian permineralized rhyniopsid from the Battery Point Formation of Gaspé (Canada)" . Retrieved 2022-08-23.
^ Hoffman, Laurel A.; Tomescu, Alexandru M. F. (2013). "An early origin of secondary growth:Franhueberia gerrienneigen. et sp. nov. from the Lower Devonian of Gaspé (Quebec, Canada)" . American Journal of Botany . 100 (4): 754–763. doi :10.3732/ajb.1300024 . ISSN 0002-9122 . PMID 23535772 .
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^ Gensel, Patricia G.; Andrews, Henry N.; Forbes, William H. (March 1975). "A New Species of Sawdonia with Notes on the Origin of Microphylls and Lateral Sporangia" . Botanical Gazette . 136 (1): 50–62. doi :10.1086/336782 . ISSN 0006-8071 . S2CID 84204867 .
^ Gensel, Patricia G. (2022-08-05). "Partially Permineralized Adpressions of Wilhowia phocarum Gensel gen. et sp. nov., a New Basal Euphyllophyte from the Lower Devonian Battery Point Formation, North Shore of Gaspé Bay, Quebec, Canada" . International Journal of Plant Sciences . 183 (7): 604–629. doi :10.1086/721263 . ISSN 1058-5893 . S2CID 251377842 .
^ Lalica, Madison A. K.; Tomescu, Alexandru M. F. (2022-03-01). "The early fossil record of glomeromycete fungi: New data on spores associated with early tracheophytes in the Lower Devonian (Emsian; c. 400 Ma) of Gaspé (Quebec, Canada)" . Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . 298 : 104590. doi :10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104590 . ISSN 0034-6667 .
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Sawdonia ornata fossil from the Battery Point Formation
Canada
