Where: British Columbia, Canada (52.8° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.9° S, 103.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Miette Group, Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)
• The locality is stratigraphically about 330m below the unconformably overlying McNaughton Formation (Gog Group) of probable Cambrian age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, green siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: H. J. Hofmann, E. W. Mountjoy, and M. W. Teitz. 1985. Ediacaran fossils from the Miette Group, Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, Cananda. Geology 13:819-821 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10534: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 21.05.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Medusae | |
Irridinitus sp. Fedonkin 1983 | |
Aspidella terranovica | |
"Cyclomedusa ? davidi" = Aspidella terranovica
"Cyclomedusa ? davidi" = Aspidella terranovica Billings 1872 12 ellipses with bipartite organization
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Protodipleurosoma | |
Protodipleurosoma sp. Sprigg 1949 |