GGU sample 301346 (Cambrian of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (82.2° N, 42.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° S, 46.2° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ovatoryctocara granulata trilobite zone, Upper Member (Henson Gletscher Formation), Middle Cambrian (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)

• "upper member of cherty carbonates (about 7 m)"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; cherty/siliceous carbonate

• "upper member of cherty carbonates (about 7 m)"

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with silica

Collected by John s. Peel and Mark R. Blaker in 1985

Collection methods: chemical, acetic,

• Specimens reposited at palaeontological collections (PMU) of the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Sweden

Primary reference: M. Streng, A. D. Butler, J. S. Peel, R. J. Garwood, and J.-B. Caron. 2016. A new family of Cambrian rhynchonelliformean brachiopods (Order Naukatida) with an aberrant coral-like morphology. Palaeontology 59(2):269-293 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193553: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 28.05.2018, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Obolellata
 Naukatida - Tomteluvidae
Nasakia thulensis n. gen. n. sp.
Nasakia thulensis n. gen. n. sp. Streng et al. 2016
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Fritzolenellus cf. truemani Walcott 1913 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonnia brennus Walcott 1916 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
  - Antagmidae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Pagetides elegans Rasetti 1945