Also known as GSC loc. 99039, Section C, Unit 1, Canada - Narbonne and Hofmann 1987

Where: Yukon, Canada (66.0° N, 134.2° W: paleocoordinates 47.8° S, 80.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: White Sea other zone, Disc Member (Blueflower Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• The fauna are located in beds that occur above the highest Varangian tillites and below the lowest fossiliferous deposits of the Cambrian. Strata described occur in equivalents to the Upper part of the Windermere Supergroup. NOTE: No formal stratigraphic names are given, so the accepted informal names are listed in the Formation data field. Macrofossils are found sporadically throughout the lower 2/3 of the unit, trace fossils occur in lower 1/3 and upper 1/3. No slabs contained BOTH macro and trace fossils. Was Siltstone Unit 1

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified shale and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Reposited in the GSC

• The Goz Siltstone, Silstone Unit 2, and the lower 2/3 or Siltstone Unit 1 contain faunal assemblages similar to the Redkino 'Series" of the Vendian, Russian Platform.

Primary reference: G. M. Narbonne and H. J. Hofmann. 1987. Ediacaran biota of the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, Canada. Palaeontology 30(4):647-676 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10361: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 10.04.2001

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