Where: Massachusetts (42.2° N, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 72.4° S, 63.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sunnaginia imbricata small shelly zone, Lower Member (Weymouth Formation), Placentian (538.8 - 517.1 Ma)
• Camenella baltica zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 56836: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Orthothecimorpha | |
"Ladatheca" cylindrica Grabau 1900 | |
Hyolitha | |
Conotheca mammilata Rozanov et al. 1969 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Eccentrotheca kanesia Landing et al. 1980 | |
Sunnaginia imbricata Rozanov et al. 1969 | |
Camenella ? baltica Bengtson 1970 | |
Helcionelloida | |
? Mellopegma sp. Runnegar and Jell 1976 | |
Aldanella attleborensis Shaler and Foerste 1888 | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920 | |
Plinthokonion | |
Plinthokonion arethion Landing 1988 | |
Torellella laevigata Linnarsson 1871 | |
Hyolithellus aff. micans Billings 1871 |