Mistaken Point, oldest Ediacaran (Ediacaran of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (46.7° N, 53.3° W: paleocoordinates 74.5° S, 94.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Upper part of Drook Fm., early Ediacaran, ca. 580 Ma

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified shale and lithified sandstone

• Fossil on shaly tops of turbidite beds under volcanic ashes

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: G. M. Narbonne and J. G. Gehling. 2003. Life after snowball: The oldest complex Ediacaran fossils. Geology 31(1):27-30 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51741: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 15.06.2005, edited by Marc Laflamme

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Rangeomorpha -
"Charnia antecedens" = Vinlandia antecedens2, "Charnia wardi" = Trepassia wardae
"Charnia antecedens" = Vinlandia antecedens2 Laflamme et al. 2007
"Charnia wardi" = Trepassia wardae Narbonne and Gehling 2003
 Rangeomorpha - Charniidae
Charnia masoni Ford 1958
Thectardis avalonensis
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Thectardis avalonensis1 Clapham et al. 2004 triangle