Also known as GH

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (47.6° N, 53.3° W: paleocoordinates 74.3° S, 91.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Avalon other zone, Mistaken Point Formation (Conception Group), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• The fossiliferous horizon occurs midway through the lower half of the Mistaken Point Formation, approximately 70 m above the base of the Green Head section (Ichaso et al., 2007). ICHASO, A., R. W. DALRYMPLE, AND G. M. NARBONNE. 2007. Paleoenvironmental and basin analysis of the late Neoproterozoic (Ediacaran) upper Conception and St. John’s groups, west Conception Bay, Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44:25–41.

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, graded, fine-grained, medium, tuffaceous, silty siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Due to its status as an ecological reserve and a candidate World Heritage site, it is now prohibited by law to collect specimens from Mistaken Point.

Primary reference: E. L. Bamforth, G. M. Narbonne, and M. M. Anderson. 2008. Growth and ecology of a multi-branched Ediacaran rangeomorph from the Mistaken Point Assemblage, Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology 82(4):763-777 [M. Laflamme/M. Laflamme]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89115: authorized by Marc Laflamme, entered by Marc Laflamme on 05.05.2009

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