Where: Georgia (34.2° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 95.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Conasauga Formation, Marjumian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)
• marjuman
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone and lithified, concretionary lime mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: S. E. Peters. 2003. Evenness, richness and the Cambrian-Paleozoic faunal transition in North America: an assemblage-level perspective. The University of Chicago 1-279 [S. Peters/S. Peters/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64486: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 09.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongia | |
"? Demospongia indet." = Demospongiae
"? Demospongia indet." = Demospongiae Sollas 1875 demosponge | |
Helcionelloida | |
Pelagiella sp. Matthew 1895 | |
Hyolitha | |
Hyolithida indet. Mathew 1962 | |
Lingulata | |
Acrotretidae indet. Schuchert 1893 | |
Artiopoda | |
Baltagnostus sp. Lochmann 1944 | |
Peronopsis sp. Corda 1847 | |
Trilobita | |
Ptychopariida indet. Swinnerton 1915 trilobite | |
? Holcacephalus sp. Resser 1938 trilobite | |
Elrathia sp. Walcott 1924 trilobite
Alokistocare sp. Lorenz 1906 trilobite | |
"? Blainia sp." = Asaphiscus (Blainia)
"? Blainia sp." = Asaphiscus (Blainia) Walcott 1916 trilobite | |
? Bonneterrina sp. Lochmann 1936 trilobite |