Ingta Ridge (Ediacaran of Canada)

Also known as IR

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (63.3° N, 128.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° S, 85.2° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Nama other zone, PS4 Member (Ingta Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• Parasequence 4

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; siltstone

• Offshore shelf siltsone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: C. Carbone and G. M. Narbonne. 2014. When life got smart: The evolution of behavioral complexity through the Ediacaran and early Cambrian of NW Canada. Journal of Paleontology 88(2):309-330 [D. Muscente/D. Muscente]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231367: authorized by Daniel Segessenman, entered by Daniel Segessenman on 17.08.2023, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Problematica indet. Andrews 1970
Aspidella
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Aspidella sp. Billings 1872
 Ichnofossils -
Cruziana sp. d'Orbigny 1842
Archaeonassa sp. Fenton and Fenton 1937
Plagiogmus sp. Roedel 1929
Treptichnus bifurcus Miller 1889
Treptichnus cf. pedum Seilacher 1955