GGU 340103.3684 (Cambrian of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (82.8° N, 42.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 50.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Buen Formation, Montezuman (520.0 - 515.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, muddy mudstone

• Sedimentation from suspension took place in a sheltered, periodically dysoxic environment
• slope mudstones

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: surface (float)

• GGU, Geological Survey of Greenland (now Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland), Copenhagen, Denmark; MGUH, Geological Museum, Copenhagen

•(part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark).

Primary reference: J. P. Botting, P. Cárdenas, and J. S. Peel. 2015. A Crown-Group demosponge from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet biota, North Greenland. Palaeontology 58(1):35-43 [C. Simpson/T. Karim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 233876: authorized by Carl Simpson, entered by Talia Karim on 06.03.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

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Demospongiae
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Demospongiae sp.
Demospongiae sp. demosponge