GGU 271717, western side Løndal (Cambrian of Greenland)

Also known as locality 19780714-1

Where: Peary Land, Greenland (82.4° N, 38.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 48.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: A Member (Aftenstjernesø Formation), Lenian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• Olenellus zone, which is the end of the Early Cambrian. See Ineson and Peel (1997, pp. 39–46, figs. 23, 24A, 25).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic dolomite

• phosphatic dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: acetic

• MGUH

Primary reference: C. B. Skovsted, J. S. Peel, and C.J. Atkins. 2004. The problematic fossil Triplicatella from the Early Cambrian of Greenland, Canada and Siberia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 41:1273-1283 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96527: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Sarah Tweedt on 11.06.2010

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Taxonomic list

Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Triplicatellidae
Triplicatella sinuosa n. sp. Skovsted et al. 2004