HNR-62.0 - Hoppin Resevoir South Attleboro (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Massachusetts (42.0° N, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 68.0° S, 65.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Callavia trilobite zone, Upper Member (Weymouth Formation), Branchian (517.1 - 509.0 Ma)

• Botomian; Callavia zone. PJW: Given as Lower member, but Callavia zone starts in the Upper Member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, red, argillaceous wackestone

• trilobite wacke- to packestone, with rare lime mudstone pebbles, thin to medium bedded, bright red, weathers red, argillaceous, slaty

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 56840: 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
Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida -
Eccentrotheca kanesia
Eccentrotheca kanesia Landing et al. 1980
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
Halkieria sp.
Halkieria sp. Poulsen 1967