GGU sample 218583 (Cambrian of Greenland)

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

• "Black argillaceous siltstone"

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

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Taxonomic list

Microdictyon
  -
Microdictyon sp. Bengston et al. 1981
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Pagetides elegans Rasetti 1945
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Fritzolenellus cf. truemani Walcott 1913 trilobite
 Ptychopariida -
Ptychoparioidea indet. Matthew 1887 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonnia brennus Walcott 1916 trilobite
Kootenia sp. Walcott 1899 trilobite
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida -
Obolellata
 Naukatida - Tomteluvidae
Nasakia thulensis Streng et al. 2016
Brachiopoda
  -
Linguliformea indet. Williams et al. 1996
Hyolitha
  -
unclassified
  -
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754
Plates
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Sponge spicules
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida -
Chancelloriida indet. Walcott 1920
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872