Also known as Section 1

Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (70.2° N, 113.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 1.6° S, 55.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kuonamkites trilobite zone, 6 Member (Kuonamka Formation), Amgan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)

• "Kuonamka Formation and belong to the Amgan Stage of the traditional Middle Cambrian of Siberia"; "These can be correlated with lower Stage 5 ... of IUGS"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by A. Kouchinsky, S. Bengtson in 1996

Primary reference: A. Kouchinsky, S. Bengtson, S. Clausen, A. Gubanov, J. M. Malinky and J. S. Peel. 2011. A middle Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Kuonamka Formation, northern Siberia. Alcheringa 35(1):123-189 [P. Wagner/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 110820: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 14.06.2011

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