Where: Saxony, Germany (51.2° N, 15.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 51.5° S, 7.5° E (Wright 2013)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ludwigsdorf Member (Zwetau Formation), Atdabanian to Atdabanian (521.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• Ludwigsdorf Section, Great Ludwigsdorf Quarry. The Upper Ludwigsdorf Member is cyclinically developed with 5 cycles of fossiliferous limestone grading into phacoidal limestone. Each cycle is 2-14 meters thick. There is an overall shallowing of the environment with crossbedding, load casts, ripple marks, and cut and fill near the top of the member.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, silty limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

• Fossil structures may be obscured by sparitisation with a majority of the specimens found in coquinoid layers withing the sandy carbonate beds (bioclastic wakestone and bioclastic floatstone)

Primary reference: O. Elicki and J. Schneider. 1992. Lower Cambrian (Atdabanian/Botomian) shallow-marine carbonates of the Gorlitz synclinorium (Saxony/Germany). Facies 26:55-66 [W. Kiessling/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6899: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 09.04.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

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