Where: Antarctica (82.7° S, 42.9° W: paleocoordinates 14.1° S, 149.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schneider Hills Limestone Formation, Atdabanian to Atdabanian (521.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• AGE: Early Cambrian (Late Atdabanian or Botomian) = Caerfai of Harland et al.

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•SPECIFIC COMMENTS: Dark gray wackestone layer, 22 m below the base of the lower massive boundstone unit in the informal formation, the limestone of Schneider Hills.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: bulk,

• Reposited in Kansas University Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology.

Primary reference: A. L. Rode, B.S. Lieberman, and A.J. Rowell. 2003. A new Early Cambrian bradoriid (Arthropoda) from East Antarctica. Journal of Paleontology 77(4):691-697 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49081: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.04.2005

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