Where: Greenland (82.2° N, 39.7° W: paleocoordinates 19.1° S, 45.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ovatoryctocara granulata trilobite zone, Upper Member (Henson Gletscher Formation), Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)
• "near the base of the upper member of the Henson Gletscher Formation"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; cherty/siliceous carbonate
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with silica
Collected by John s. Peel and Mark R. Blaker in 1985
Collection methods: chemical, acetic,
• Specimens reposited at palaeontological collections (PMU) of the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Sweden
Primary reference: M. Streng, A. D. Butler, J. S. Peel, R. J. Garwood, and J.-B. Caron. 2016. A new family of Cambrian rhynchonelliformean brachiopods (Order Naukatida) with an aberrant coral-like morphology. Palaeontology 59(2):269-293 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 193556: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 28.05.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Microdictyon | |
Microdictyon sp. Bengston et al. 1981 | |
Artiopoda | |
Pagetides elegans Rasetti 1945 | |
Trilobita | |
Fritzolenellus cf. truemani Walcott 1913 trilobite | |
Ptychoparioidea indet. Matthew 1887 trilobite | |
Bonnia brennus Walcott 1916 trilobite
Kootenia sp. Walcott 1899 trilobite | |
Helcionelloida | |
Helcionellida indet. Geyer 1994 | |
Obolellata | |
Nasakia thulensis Streng et al. 2016 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Linguliformea indet. Williams et al. 1996 | |
Hyolitha | |
unclassified | |
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Coeloscleritophora | |
Chancelloriida indet. Walcott 1920 | |
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872 |