Where: New Brunswick, Canada (45.3° N, 66.0° W: paleocoordinates 74.3° S, 57.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Somerset Street Member (Hanford Brook Formation), Caerfai (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• Part of Branchian Series

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, phosphatic sandstone and lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Primary reference: S. R. Westrop and E. Landing. 2000. Lower Cambrian (Branchian) trilobites and biostratigraphy of the Hanford Brook Formation, southern New Brunswick. Journal of Paleontology 74(5):858-878 [N. Heim/N. Heim/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34751: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 22.09.2003

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