Where: Greenland (81.6° N, 16.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 14.9° N, 95.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nevadella zone, lower Member (Buen Formation), Montezuman (520.0 - 515.3 Ma)

• Tommotian-Atdabanian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: cast, trace, original calcite

Collection methods: mechanical,

• Collection consists of two species of fauna from the Sirius Passet fauna. The fossils are preserved as central mineralization of original calcite and replacement of outer portions with clay minerals.

Primary reference: G. E. Budd and J. S. Peel. 1998. A new xenusiid lobopod from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna of North Greenland. Palaeontology 41(6):1201-1213 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8095: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 19.06.2000, edited by Alex Lin

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