Where: Newfoundland, Canada (46.6° N, 53.2° W: paleocoordinates 74.5° S, 95.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Avalon other zone, Briscal Formation (Conception Group), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, graded, fine-grained, medium, tuffaceous, muddy, sandy sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the ROM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Fossils occur within an ecological and prohibits future collection, but some specimens were previously collected by the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
Primary reference: M. E. Clapham, G. M. Narbonne, and J. G. Gehling. 2003. Paleoecology of the oldest known animal communities: Ediacaran assemblages at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland. Paleobiology 29(4):527-544 [D. Muscente/D. Muscente]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 207806: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.02.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
"Metazoa "spindle"" = Animalia
"Metazoa "spindle"" = Animalia Linnaeus 1758 | |
Culmofrons plumosa2 Laflamme et al. 2012
Frondophyllas grandis n. gen. n. sp.1 Bamforth and Narbonne 2009
Bradgatia sp. Boynton and Ford 1995 | |
Ivesia | |
"Ivesia sp." = Ivesheadia
"Ivesia sp." = Ivesheadia Boynton and Ford 1996 |