Also known as Loc. 1

Where: Greenland (80.3° N, 62.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.1° S, 49.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ptychagnostus atavus trilobite zone, Henson Gletscher Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Approximately 117m above the base of section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified wackestone and lithified packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: Specimens were collected by J.S. Peel and M.R. Baker in 1985. Only trilobites are described in taxonomic detail. It is not known if/what other fossils are found in the stata

Primary reference: L. E. Babcock. 1994. Systematics and phylogenetics of polymeroid trilobites from the Henson Gletscher and Kap Stanton formations (Middle Cambrian), North Greenland. Bulletin Gronlands geologicske undersohelse 169:79-129 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10477: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 09.05.2001, edited by Pete Wagner

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