Mistaken Point BC (Ediacaran of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland, Canada (46.6° N, 53.2° W: paleocoordinates 74.5° S, 95.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Avalon other zone, Briscal Formation (Conception Group), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, graded, fine-grained, medium, tuffaceous, muddy, sandy sandstone

• See WOOD, D. A., R. W. DALRYMPLE, G. M. NARBONNE, J. G. GEHLING, AND M. E. CLAPHAM. 2003. Paleoenvironmental analysis of the late Neoproterozoic Mistaken Point and Trepassey formations, southeastern Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 40:1375–1391.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Fossils occur within an ecological and prohibits future collection, but some specimens were previously collected by the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

Primary reference: M. E. Clapham, G. M. Narbonne, and J. G. Gehling. 2003. Paleoecology of the oldest known animal communities: Ediacaran assemblages at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland. Paleobiology 29(4):527-544 [D. Muscente/D. Muscente]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207806: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.02.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"Metazoa "spindle"" = Animalia
"Metazoa "spindle"" = Animalia Linnaeus 1758
 Rangeomorpha -
Frondophyllas grandis n. gen. n. sp.1, Culmofrons plumosa2, Bradgatia sp.
Frondophyllas grandis n. gen. n. sp.1 Bamforth and Narbonne 2009
Culmofrons plumosa2 Laflamme et al. 2012
Bradgatia sp. Boynton and Ford 1995
Ivesia
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"Ivesia sp." = Ivesheadia
"Ivesia sp." = Ivesheadia Boynton and Ford 1996
1Bamforth and Narbonne 2009; 2Laflamme et al. 2012