Where: Plymouth County, Massachusetts (42.3° N, 70.9° W: paleocoordinates 87.2° S, 58.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cambridge Formation, Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)
• Cambridge Fm also known as Cambridge Argillite
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; shale and siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: M. D. Thompson and S. A. Bowring. 2000. Age of the Squantum "Tillite," Boston Basin, Massachusetts: U-Pb Zircon Constraints on Terminal Neoproterozoic Glaciation. American Journal of Science 300:630-655 [D. Segessenman/D. Segessenman]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 231436: authorized by Daniel Segessenman, entered by Daniel Segessenman on 19.08.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aspidella terranovica | |
Aspidella ? terranovica Billings 1872 |