Floyd Church Trace Fossils (Ediacaran of the United States)

Where: North Carolina (35.4° N, 80.3° W: paleocoordinates 57.9° S, 100.0° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Floyd Church Formation (Albemarle Group), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Primary reference: P. B. Weaver, M. A. S. McMenamin, and R. C. Tacker. 2006. Paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographical implications of a new Ediacaran body fossil from the Neoproterozoic Carolina Terrane, Stanly Co, North Carolina. Precambrian Research 105:123-135 [D. Muscente/D. Muscente]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231427: authorized by Daniel Segessenman, entered by Daniel Segessenman on 18.08.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Erniettomorpha -
 Ichnofossils -
Neonereites sp. Seilacher 1960
Gordia ? arcuata Ksiazkiewicz 1977
Torrowangea sp. Webby 1970
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
Helminthopsis sp. Heer 1877