Where: Massachusetts (42.0° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 70.7° S, 63.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Weymouth Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• Aldanella attleborensis zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, red, argillaceous wackestone

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 56831: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.11.2005

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