Also known as Sirius Passet Lagerstätte

Where: Peary Land, Greenland (82.8° N, 42.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.4° S, 49.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Nevadella trilobite zone, Lower Member (Buen Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• Trilobite zone is based on the presence of Buenellus higginsi.

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts, recrystallized

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Almost 6000 fossiliferous slabs were selected during visits between 1985 and 2006.

Primary reference: S. Conway Morris and J. S. Peel. 2008. The earliest annelids: Lower Cambrian polychaetes from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Peary Land, North Greenland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53:137-148 [A. Lin/A. Lin]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90574: authorized by Alex Lin, entered by Alex Lin on 07.08.2009, edited by Phil Novack-Gottshall and Pete Wagner

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