Buen Formation, Peary Land, Greenland - Conway Morris and Peel 1990 (Cambrian of Greenland)

Where: Pearyland, Greenland (82.6° N, 32.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 48.7° W)

• 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

unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Platyhelminthes indet. Gegenbaur 1859
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
Halkieria sp. Poulsen 1967