Where: Greenland (82.2° N, 42.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° S, 46.2° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ovatoryctocara granulata trilobite zone, Upper Member (Henson Gletscher Formation), Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)
• "upper member of cherty carbonates (about 7 m)"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; cherty/siliceous carbonate
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 193555: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 28.05.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
Pagetides elegans Rasetti 1945 | |
Trilobita | |
Fritzolenellus cf. truemani Walcott 1913 trilobite | |
Onchocephalus freucheni trilobite | |
Bonnia brennus Walcott 1916 trilobite | |
Protoryctocephalus arcticus, Ovatoryctocara yaxiensis, Ovatoryctocara granulata, Lancastria cf. plana
Protoryctocephalus arcticus trilobite
Ovatoryctocara yaxiensis trilobite
Ovatoryctocara granulata Chernysheva 1960 trilobite
Lancastria cf. plana trilobite | |
Zacanthopsis blakeri trilobite | |
Obolellata | |
Nasakia thulensis Streng et al. 2016 |