Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, 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, Mistaken Point Formation (Conception Group), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, graded, fine-grained, medium, tuffaceous, muddy mudstone
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. Laflamme, G. M. Narbonne, and M. M. Anderson. 2004. Morphometric analysis of the Ediacaran frond Charniodiscus from the Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology 78(5):827-837 [M. Laflamme/M. Laflamme]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89095: authorized by Marc Laflamme, entered by Marc Laflamme on 04.05.2009, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thectardis avalonensis | |
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Charniodiscus procerus, "Charniodiscus spinosus" = Arborea spinosa
Charniodiscus procerus Laflamme et al. 2004 frond
"Charniodiscus spinosus" = Arborea spinosa Laflamme et al. 2004 Frond | |
Charnia masoni5 Ford 1958 | |
Beothukis mistakensis6, Bradgatia linfordensis3, Fractofusus misrai4, Fractofusus andersoni4, Hapsidophyllas flexibilis1
Beothukis mistakensis6 Brasier and Antcliffe 2009
Bradgatia linfordensis3 Boynton and Ford 1995
Hapsidophyllas flexibilis1 Bamforth and Narbonne 2009 |