Spaniard’s Bay, Ediacaran (Ediacaran of Canada)

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (47.6° N, 53.3° W: paleocoordinates 74.2° S, 91.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Trepassey Formation (St. John's Group), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• Middle Ediacaran, ca. 562 Ma

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified tuff

• Fossil on shaly tops of turbidite beds under volcanic ashes

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: G. M. Narbonne. 2004. Modular construction of early Ediacaran complex life forms. Science 305:1141-1144 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51742: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 15.06.2005, edited by Marc Laflamme

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Taxonomic list

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 Rangeomorpha -
Rangeomorpha indet., Bradgatia linfordensis1
Rangeomorpha indet.
several undescribed taxa
Bradgatia linfordensis1 Boynton and Ford 1995
Specimen preservation and shape atypical
 Rangeomorpha - Charniidae
cf. Charnia sp., Charnia masoni2
cf. Charnia sp. Ford 1958
Charnia masoni2 Ford 1958
1Flude and Narbonne 2008; 2Laflamme et al. 2007