Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) from North Greenland : new light on metazoan diversity in early Cambrian shelf environments

• Published in: Papers in Palaeontology
• Main Authors: Wallet, Elise, Slater, Ben, Willman, Sebastian, Peel, John Stuart
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Paleobiologi 2021
• Subjects: small carbonaceous fossils; Cambrian; Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätten; Crustacea; bivalved arthropod; Greenland; Other Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Annan geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Burgess; Sirius; North Greenland
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-433640; https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1347

The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland is one of the oldest records of soft-bodied metazoan-dominated ecosystems from the early Cambrian. The Lagerstätte site itself is restricted to just a single c.a. 1-km-long outcrop located offshore from the shelf margin, in an area affected by metamor...