Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (46.8° N, 60.9° W: paleocoordinates 79.2° S, 82.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Avalon other zone, Drook Formation (Conception Group), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• The bedding plane has previously been radiometrically dated to 578.8 ± 0.5 Ma. Redated by Matthews et al. (2021).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; siltstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: J. J. Matthews, A. G. Liu, C. Yang, D. McIlroy, B. Levell and D. J. Condon. 2021. A Chronostratigraphic Framework for the Rise of the Ediacaran Macrobiota: New Constraints from Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland. Geological Society of America Bulletin 133(3-4):612-624more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 169292: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.05.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

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