Where: Greenland (82.9° N, 41.1° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 49.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Buen Formation, Atdabanian to Atdabanian (520.0 - 513.0 Ma)
• upper shales of the 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 121185: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Choia hindei Dawson 1896 demosponge | |
Bradoriida | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Bivalvia | |
? Fordilla sp. Barrande 1881 clam |