Where: British Columbia, Canada (51.4° N, 116.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.6° N, 120.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bathyuriscus-Elrathina trilobite zone, Walcott Quarry Shale Member (Burgess Shale Formation), Delamaran (509.7 - 505.3 Ma)

• Pagetia bootes subzone, 7.6 m thick "Greater Phyllopod Bed"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and D. Collins. 2004. Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia. Royal Ontario Museum Contributions in Science 1:1-155 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121962: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.12.2011, edited by Mihaela Krause, Lin Na, Martin Smith, Pete Wagner, Mark Uhen, Phil Novack-Gottshall and Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

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