Deadwood Fm. drill core (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 113.4° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° S, 76.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Deadwood Formation, Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• dated biostratigraphically to the late Cambrian Furongian epoch (~485–497 million years ago (Ma))

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; mudstone

• Fossilization occurred in a shallow marine, muddy/ sandy shelf environment (shoreface to offshore) located in a notably more oxygenated, epicratonic setting than classical Burgess Shale-type environments (see Supplementary Fig. 1 for further details).
• All specimens occur as small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) recovered from unoxidized mudstone horizons using a low-manipulation HF extrac- tion process7.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: chemical, hydroflouric

• All specimens occur as small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) recovered from unoxidized mudstone horizons using a low-manipulation HF extrac- tion process7

Primary reference: T. H. P. Harvey and N. J. Butterfield. 2017. Exceptionally preserved Cambrian loriciferans and the early animal invasion of the meiobenthos. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1(22):1-5 [M. Uhen/S. Paxson/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 197354: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

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 Bilateria -
Eolorica deadwoodensis n. gen. n. sp.
Eolorica deadwoodensis n. gen. n. sp. Harvey and Butterfield 2017