The Lawsonian Stage - the Eoconodontus notchpeakensis FAD and HERB carbon isotope excursion define a globally correlatable terminal Cambrian stage

 

Authors: Landing E, Westrop SR, Adrain JM

Published in: Bulletin of Geosciences, volume 86, issue 3; pages: 621 - 640; Received 30 December 2010; Accepted in revised form 8 August 2011; Online 19 September 2011

Keywords: Cambrian, Lawsonian Stage, Utah, United States, conodonts, agnostoids, HERB excursion,

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Abstract

The best definition for the base of the terminal Cambrian (Stage 10) is the conodont Eoconodontus notchpeakensis FAD ± onset of the HERB carbon isotope excursion. These horizons allow precise intercontinental correlations in deep marine to peritidal facies. The agnostoid Lotagnostus americanus (Billings, 1860) FAD has been suggested as a Stage 10 base, but restudy of types and typotypes shows that the species occurs only in Late Cambrian (Sunwaptan) debris flow boulders in Quebec (Westrop et al., this volume). Non-Quebec reports of "L. americanus" are an amalgum of small samples of often poorly documented specimens with effaced–highly furrowed cephala and pygidia and with or without a highly trisected pygidial posteroaxis. Many of these occurrences have local species names, but no evidence suggests that they record intraspecific variation of a globally distributed taxon. They are not synonyms of L. americanus. Lotagnostus, largely a dysoxic form, does not allow precise correlation into oxygenated platform facies. Another proposal used the conodont Cordylodus andresi FAD as a Stage 10 base, but other work shows this FAD is diachronous. An unrealistic approach to L. americanus’ systematics and the correlation uncertainty of C. andresi are overcome by defining a Stage 10 base at the globally recognizable E. notchpeakensis FAD, with the C. andresi FAD a useful proxy on cool-water continents. The "Lawsonian Stage", named for Lawson Cove in western Utah, has a basal GSSP at the E. notchpeakensis FAD and replaces informal Stage 10. The Lawsonian, ~150 m-thick in western Utah, underlies the basal Ordovician Iapetognathus Zone.

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