TABLE 1. Brachiopod assemblages of the Forteau Formation of southern Labrador and western Newfoundland, Canada with the presence of each taxon and assemblage in investigated stratigraphical sections indicated.
| Sampled sections | ||||||||||||||
| Brachiopod taxa studied | Fox Cove Middle shale | MSM Devils Cove member | MSM Middle shale | Fox Cove Upper lmst. | L'Anse au Loupe 1-3 | MSM Upper lmst. | Big East River section 5 | Route 432 section 5 | *Gros Morne 1-6 | Gros Morne 9A-11 | Gros Morne 14-14C | Gros Morne 14G | Assemblages | |
| Inner shelf, Transgressive Stage | Inner shelf, Regressive Stage | Outer shelf | ||||||||||||
| Micromitra sp. | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| Hadrotreta taconica | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | 1, 3 | ||||||
| Eothele tubulus | x | x | x | x | 3 | |||||||||
| Eoobolus priscus | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||
| Acrothyra bonnia | x | x | x | |||||||||||
| Paterina sp. | x | x | x | x | x | 2 | ||||||||
| Setatella significans | x | x | x | |||||||||||
| Botsfordia caelata | x | x | 1 | |||||||||||
| Kyrshabaktella diabola | x | x | x | |||||||||||
| Pustulobolus triangulus | ? | x | ||||||||||||
| Hadrotreta sp. | x | x | ||||||||||||
| *) excludes the Devils Cove member | ||||||||||||||
TABLE 2. Distribution of Botsfordia caelata (Hall, 1847) and Eoobolus priscus (Poulsen, 1932) in GGU (Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse - now part of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland) samples collected from the upper Bastion Formation at Albert Heim Bjerge and C.H. Ostenfeld Nunatak of North-East Greenland. Absolute number of specimens for each investigated GGU sample with relative proportions of the two species for each area indicated. See Skovsted and Holmer (2005) and Skovsted (2004, 2006) for more details.
| Section + sample | Taxon | Botsfordia caelata | Eoobolus priscus | |
| Albert Heim Bjerge | ||||
| GGU 314804 | 10 | |||
| GGU 314806 | 8 | |||
| GGU 314807 | 61 | |||
| GGU 314808 | 19 | |||
| GGU 314809 | 23 | 97 | ||
| GGU 314835 | 246 | |||
| GGU 314836 | 5 | |||
| GGU 314837 | 1 | 9 | ||
| Ʃ | 368 | 111 | ||
| % | 77% | 23% | ||
| CH Ostenfeld Nunatak | ||||
| GGU 314901 | 2 | 3 | ||
| GGU 314903 | 7 | 3 | ||
| GGU 314904 | 5 | 38 | ||
| GGU 314906 | 75 | |||
| GGU 314908 | 4 | 61 | ||
| GGU 314909 | 1 | 9 | ||
| GGU 314910 | 22 | 5 | ||
| GGU 314918 | 61 | |||
| GGU 314919 | 2 | |||
| GGU 314931 | 21 | |||
| GGU 314933 | 12 | 94 | ||
| GGU 314934 | 3 | |||
| GGU 314936 | 2 | |||
| GGU 314937 | 1 | |||
| Ʃ | 116 | 315 | ||
| % | 27% | 73% | ||
