Hewitts Cove Section (Ediacaran of the United States)

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

• It should be noted that the original observations and descriptions of the fossil reported here are buried under a few layers of cyclic references and that the original observations appear to have been reported in pre-1990 conference abstracts.
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Aspidella terranovica
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Aspidella ? terranovica