SA-EC-2 (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as Upper Parker Slate, NW Vermont in Sepkoski's (1998) lists

Where: Vermont (44.5° N, 73.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 81.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: upper Member (Parker Slate Formation), St Davids (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• "l. M.Camb. Albertella zone"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: black limestone and shale

• "black slate with thin ls and ls congl. (flow debris?) outer shelf? (Palmer: outer detrital belt) geosynclinal. BA4."

Collection methods: "[collections SA-EC-1 and SA-NE-9]"

Primary reference: A. B. Shaw. 1957. Paleontology of Northwestern Vermont. VI. The early Middle Cambrian fauna. Journal of Paleontology 31(4):785-792 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78911: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

• "A.B. Shaw 1957. Paleontology of NW VT. VI The Early Middle Cambrian fauna. J. Paleo. 31:785-792"
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Kootenia boucheri n. sp. Shaw 1957 trilobite