Where: Massachusetts (42.0° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 72.1° S, 63.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sunnaginia imbricata pollen zone, Lower Member (Weymouth Formation), Placentian (538.8 - 517.1 Ma)

• Aldanella attleborensis zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, red, argillaceous wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical

Primary reference: E. Landing. 1988. Lower Cambrian of eastern Massachusetts: stratigraphy and small shelly fossils. Journal of Paleontology 62(5):661-695 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56834: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.11.2005

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