Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (49.5° N, 57.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° S, 73.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dear Arm Member (Forteau Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• middle Dyeran.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, permineralized, replaced with silica, replaced with phosphate

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: C. B. Skovsted. 2003. Unusually preserved Salterella from the Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of Newfoundland. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 125(1):17-22 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78747: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.02.2008

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