Windermeria aitkeni, Blueflower Fm.., - Narbonne 1994 (Ediacaran of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (64.7° N, 132.0° W: paleocoordinates 48.3° S, 82.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Specimens are found from the upper and middle portions of the Windermere Supergroup. Megafossils range through more than 2.5 km of section, making this the thickest succession bearing Ediacara-type fossils known anywhere in the world and the only ones to yield sub-tillite Ediacara-type megafossils.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone and sandstone

• dark mudstone with thin interbeds of very fine grained turbiditic sandstone and decameter-scale packets of ribbon-bedded carbonates. Sand beds may be calcitic-cemented.

Primary reference: G. M. Narbonne. 1994. New Ediacaran fossils from the Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada. Journal of Paleontology 68(3):411-416 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10433: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 16.04.2001

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Windermeria aitkeni n. gen. n. sp.
Windermeria aitkeni n. gen. n. sp. Narbonne 1994