Buen Formation, Peary Land, Greenland - Conway Morris and Peel 1990 (Cambrian of Greenland)
Where: Pearyland, Greenland (82.6° N, 32.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 22.8° N, 88.2° W (Wright 2013)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Buen Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)
• Specimens from a talus slope shed from a 5m thick unit of fissile shale
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified shale
• fissile shale
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: S. Conway Morris and J. S. Peel. 1990. Articulated halkieriids from the Lower Cambrian of north Greenland. Nature 345(28):802-805 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9917: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 31.01.2001
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Taxonomic list
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| unclassified | |
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836 | |
| Aculifera | |
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Halkieria sp. Poulsen 1967 | |
| unclassified | |
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Platyhelminthes indet. Gegenbaur 1859 | |