Also known as Loc. 2

Where: Greenland (80.3° N, 62.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.1° S, 49.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ptychagnostus atavus zone, Kap Stanton Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Specimens from the basal beds of the Kap and collected from talus. The interpretations of one collection being talus and one collection being in place is made by observing parts and counterparts of the same trilobites on two seperate slabs from the two collections.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified packstone and lithified mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: Specimens collected by A.K. Higgins in 1985. Only trilobites are described in taxonomic detail and it is not known whether or not other macrofossils are present.

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 10484: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 10.05.2001, edited by Pete Wagner

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