Also known as Reef 1844

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (48.6° N, 53.4° W: paleocoordinates 84.9° S, 26.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sunnaginia imbricata small shelly zone, West Centre Cove Formation (Bonavista Group), Placentian (538.8 - 517.1 Ma)

• top of the formation; PJW: top of the formation is the Sunnaginia imbricata zone according to Landing 1991

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Landing. 1993. In situ Earliest Cambrian tube worms and the oldest metazoan-constructed biostrome (Placentian Series, southeastern Newfoundland). Journal of Paleontology 67(3):333-342 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80844: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.05.2008

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