Where: British Columbia, Canada (51.4° N, 116.4° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° S, 80.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Glossopleura trilobite zone, Kicking Horse Shale Member (Burgess Shale Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• Polypleuraspis subzone, basal member of the Burgess Shale

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and D. Collins. 2004. Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia. Royal Ontario Museum Contributions in Science 1:1-155 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121953: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.12.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

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