Sirius Passet, north Greenland: Early Cambrian, Greenland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Radiodonta
- Tamisiocarididae
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Tamisiocaris borealis
Daley and Peel 2010
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Geography
| Country: | Greenland | State/province: | Peary Land |
| Coordinates: | 82.8° North, 34.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 28.4° South, 50.0° West |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 1-3 |
| Key time interval: | Early Cambrian |
| Age range of interval: | 538.8 - 509 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Buen |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | muddy "shale" |
| Environment: | offshore shelf |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Abundance in sediment: | rare |
| Feeding/predation traces: | gastric dissolution |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 155182 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | L. Na |
| Created: | 2014-03-31 04:58:49 | Last modified: | 2014-03-31 04:58:49 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2014-10-01 04:58:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 50584. | A. C. Daley and J. S. Peel. 2010. A Possible Anomalocaridid from the Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland. Journal of Paleontology 84(2):352-355 [W. Kiessling/L. Na] |