ER-9.6 - Ellis Road, Attleboro (Cambrian of the United States)

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 small shelly zone, Lower Member (Weymouth Formation), Placentian (541.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, red, argillaceous wackestone

• trilobite wacke- to packestone, with rare lime mudstone pebbles, thin to medium bedded, bright red, weathers red, argillaceous, slaty

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 56853: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Bilateria -
Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella sp. Matthew 1895
Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida - Sunnaginiidae
Sunnaginia imbricata Rozanov et al. 1969
Life
 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Torellella laevigata Linnarsson 1871