Where: Russian Federation (65.6° N, 39.8° E: paleocoordinates 61.0° S, 21.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: White Sea other zone, Ust-Pinega Formation, Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• Uppermost Ust-Pinega Formation. Sequence B is 55 m thick

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified claystone and lithified siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: M. W. Martin, D. V. Grazhdankin, S. A. Bowring, D. A. D. Evans, M. A. Fedonkin and J. L. Kirschvink. 2000. Age of Neoproterozoic bilatarian body and trace fossils, White Sea, Russia: implications for metazoan evolution. Science 288:841-845 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51905: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 30.06.2005

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