The Sirius Passet Lagerstatte : silica death masking opens the window on the earliest matground community of the Cambrian explosion.

• Published in: Lethaia
• Main Authors: Strang, K.M., Armstrong, H.A., Harper, D.A.T., Trabucho-Alexandre, João P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: John Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Burgess; Greenland; Peary; Peary Land; Sirius; North Greenland
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/18878/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/18878/1/18878.pdf; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/18878/2/18878P.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12174

The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (SP), Peary Land, North Greenland, occurs in black slates deposited at or just below storm wave base. It represents the earliest Cambrian microbial mat community with exceptional preservation, predating the Burgess Shale by 10 million years. Trilobites from the SP are p...