GGU 271799 Peary Land: Early/Lower Cambrian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus (Mesolenellus) hyperboreus (Poulsen 1974)
recombined as Mesolenellus hyperborea
Bradoriida - Cambriidae
Petrianna fulmenata
Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 83.1° North, 33.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.2° South, 49.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 1-3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Cambrian
Age range of interval:538.80000 - 509.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Buen
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Lithology description: dark fossiliferous shale
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:106059
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-03-01 20:30:50 Last modified:2011-03-01 03:30:50
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-01 20:30:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
35376. C. B. Skovsted and J. S. Peel. 2011. Hyolithellus in life position from the Lower Cambrian of north Greenland. Journal of Paleontology 85(1):37-47 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]