Where: Greenland (82.8° N, 42.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 49.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Buen Formation, Atdabanian to Atdabanian (521.0 - 512.9 Ma)
• highest shales of Buen Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: J. K. Rigby. 1986. Cambrian and Silurian sponges from North Greenland. Rapport Groenlands Geologiske Undersoegelse 132:51-63 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 121184: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
? Vauxia gracilenta Walcott 1920 demosponge | |
Choia hindei Dawson 1896 demosponge |