Where: United Kingdom (58.5° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 58.5° N, 4.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ghrudaidh Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• According to Rushton et al. (2011): The lowest division of the overlying Durness Group is the Ghrudaidh Formation, which includes Salterella in its lowest part. Huselbee & Thomas (1998) collected an example of Olenellus aff. reticulatus from the basal Ghrudaidh Formation in a thrust slice near Inchnadamph, Assynt, confirming that the lowest part of the Durness Group lies within the Olenellus Biozone. Higher levels in the Ghrudaidh Formation lack fossils. Located in upper part of Cambrian Stage 4.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by E. Yochelson; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson. 1983. Salterella (Early Cambrian; Agmata) from the Scottish Highlands. Journal of Paleontology 26:253-260 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176932: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.03.2016

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