Where: Germany (51.6° N, 13.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° S, 104.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tröbitz Formation, Amgan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)

• lower Agdzian stage of the West Gondwana chronostratigraphic scheme. Was put in Lower Torgau member, but that belongs to the underlying Zwethau formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Well data only

Primary reference: G. Geyer, B. Buschmann, and O. Elicki. 2014. A new lowermost middle Cambrian (Series 3, Stage 5) faunule from Saxony (Germany) and its bearing on the tectonostratigraphic history of the Saxothuringian domain. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 88(3):239-262 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162993: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.10.2014

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