Shackleton Limestone; HR-85-11 collection (Cambrian of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (82.1° S, 159.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 13.4° S, 127.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shackleton Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.1 Ma)

• Botomian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated grainstone

Primary reference: A.R. Palmer and A.J. Rowell. 1995. Early Cambrian trilobites from the Shackleton Limestone of the Central Mountains. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 69(6):1-28 [S. Peters/S. Peters/S. Peters]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56125: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 11.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Artiopoda
 Redlichiida - Estaingiidae
Pararaia sp. Kobayashi 1942 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Yunnanocephalidae
"? Pensacola sp." = Pinarella
"? Pensacola sp." = Pinarella Ă–zdikmen 2009 trilobite