Where: British Columbia, Canada (51.4° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° S, 80.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Walcott Quarry Member (Burgess Shale Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Great Phyllopod Bed of the Walcott Quarry Member, Burgess Shale Fm, Chancellor Gp, which overlies the Wash Limestone Mbr, and is overlain by the Raymond Quarry Shale Mbr. AGE: early Middle Cambrian, Delamaran North American stage. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 39 mm thick bed, 170 mm below "lower ginger layer, representing the base of the "Phyllopod Bed".

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, calcareous siltstone and lithified, cherty/siliceous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, adpression, soft parts

Reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Royal Ontario Museum staff. REPOSTORY: Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).

Primary reference: J.-B. Caron and D. A. Jackson. 2008. Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 258:222-256 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84427: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.10.2008

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