Sh. 4.2 - Sheldonville (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Massachusetts (42.0° N, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° S, 94.1° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aldanella attleborensis small shelly zone, Lower Member (Weymouth Formation), Placentian (538.8 - 517.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified wackestone

• algal mud mounds with fossil has wacke- to grainstone matrix betwen domes, red, argillaceous, slaty strong definition of mud mounts along slip cleavage.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical

Primary reference: E. Landing. 1988. Lower Cambrian of eastern Massachusetts: stratigraphy and small shelly fossils. Journal of Paleontology 62(5):661-695 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56827: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

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 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Torellella laevigata
Torellella laevigata Linnarsson 1871
Plinthokonion
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Plinthokonion arethion
Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida -
Eccentrotheca kanesia
Eccentrotheca kanesia Landing et al. 1980
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
Halkieria sp.
Halkieria sp. Poulsen 1967