New arthropod, Maplewell Series, Leicestershire, - Boynton and Ford 1979 (Ediacaran of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.8° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 65.1° S, 91.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Avalon other zone, Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• Specimen found on a loose block and has a lithology that matches the adjacent Woodhouse Beds crag, Charnian Supergroup.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

• fine-grained slaty mudstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: H. E. Boynton and T. D. Ford. 1979. Pseudovendia charnwoodensis - a new Precambrian arthropod from Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. The Mercian Geologist 7(2):175-177 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10473: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 08.05.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pseudovendia charnwoodensis
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Pseudovendia charnwoodensis n. gen. n. sp. Boynton and Ford 1979