Ella Island Formation Stratigraphic range: Cambrian Series 2-Miaolingian (Botomian-Dyeran) ~516–513 Ma | |
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Type | Formation |
Underlies | Hyolithus Creek & Dolomite Point Formations |
Overlies | Bastion Formation |
Lithology | |
Primary | Limestone |
Other | Sandstone, shale |
Location | |
Coordinates | 74°06′N23°00′W / 74.1°N 23.0°W Coordinates: 74°06′N23°00′W / 74.1°N 23.0°W |
Approximate paleocoordinates | 30°48′S48°54′W / 30.8°S 48.9°W |
Country | ![]() |
Type section | |
Named for | Ella Island |
The Ella Island Formation is a geologic formation in Greenland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian period. [1]
Wanneria is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the later part of the Botomian stage, which lasted from approximately 524 to 518.5 million years ago. This faunal stage was part of the Cambrian Period. Wanneria walcottana is the only known species in this genus.
Peronopsis is a genus of trilobite restricted to the Middle Cambrian. Its remains have been found in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
Tommotiids are Cambrian (Terreneuvian) shelly fossils thought to belong to the Brachiopod + Phoronid lineage (Brachiozoa).
Anabarella is a species of bilaterally-flattened monoplacophoran mollusc, with a morphological similarity to the rostroconchs. Its shell preserves evidence of three mineralogical textures on its outer surface: it is polygonal near the crest of the shell, subsequently changing to both spiny and stepwise. Its internal microstructure is calcitic and semi-nacreous. Its name reflects its provenance from Anabar, Siberia. It has been interpreted as ancestral to the rostroconchs, and has been aligned to the Helcionellidae.
Eiffelia is an extinct genus of sponges known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale as well as several Early Cambrian small shelly fossil deposits. It is named after Eiffel Peak, which was itself named after the Eiffel Tower. It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott. It belongs in the Hexactinellid stem group. 60 specimens of Eiffelia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.11% of the community.
Fordilla is an extinct genus of early bivalves, one of two genera in the extinct family Fordillidae. The genus is known solely from Early Cambrian fossils found in North America, Greenland, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The genus currently contains three described species, Fordilla germanica, Fordilla sibirica, and the type species Fordilla troyensis.
Mackinnonia is a genus of small shelly fossil comprising straight or slightly coiled shells of the helcionelloid type. The outer surface of their shell is smooth, whereas the inner surface has a net-like ridges. They are known from late Early Cambrian rocks across North America and Greenland.
Sachites is an extinct genus of halkeriid that is only known from fossilised spiny sclerites; many Sachites specimens are now referred to as other halkieriid taxa. Although believed to be related to the halkieriids, a chancelloriid affinity has more recently been proposed.
Mobergella is a millimetric Lower Cambrian shelly fossil of unknown affinity, usually preserved in phosphate and particularly well known from Swedish strata, where it is diagnostic of lowermost Cambrian rocks. Originally interpreted as a monoplacophoran, the circular, cap-shaped shell resembles a hyolith operculum, with concentric rings on its upper surface, and seven pairs of internal muscle scars. It is never found in association with a conch, and its affinity therefore remains undetermined. Nevertheless, its heavy musculature does seem to indicate that it functioned as an operculum.
Mongolitubulus is a form genus encapsulating a range of ornamented conical small shelly fossils of the Cambrian period. It is potentially synonymous with Rushtonites, Tubuterium and certain species of Rhombocorniculum, and owing to the similarity of the genera, they are all dealt with herein. Organisms that bore Mongolitubulus-like projections include trilobites, bradoriid arthropods and hallucigeniid lobopodians.
Pojetaia is an extinct genus of early bivalves, one of two genera in the extinct family Fordillidae. The genus is known solely from Early to Middle Cambrian fossils found in North America, Greenland, Europe, North Africa, Asia, and Australia. The genus currently contains two accepted species, Pojetaia runnegari, the type species, and Pojetaia sarhroensis, though up to seven species have been proposed. The genera Buluniella, Jellia, and Oryzoconcha are all considered synonyms of Pojetaia.
The orthothecids are one of the two hyolith orders.
Hyolithellus is a conical tubular fossil from the Cambrian, originally considered a hyolith but since has been reinterpreted (tentatively) as an annelid worm.
Mesolenellus is an extinct genus of trilobites that lived during the lower Cambrian (Botomian), found in Greenland and Spitsbergen.
Fritzolenellus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites, with three known species. It lived during the early part of the Botomian stage, which lasted from approximately 524 to 518.5 million years ago. This faunal stage was part of the Cambrian Period. Fritzolenellus occurred in parts of the paleocontinent Laurentia in what are now Northwestern Canada, Northwestern Scotland, and North-Greenland.
The Buen Formation is a geologic formation and Lagerstätte in the north of Greenland. The shale preserves fossils dating back to the Early Cambrian period.
Tannuolina is a genus of tommotiid, belonging to the brachiopod stem lineage.
The camenellans, consisting of the genera Camenalla, Dailyatia, Kennardia, Kelanella and Lapworthella, are a group of Tommotiid invertebrates from the Cambrian period, reconstructed as sister to all others. They are known from isolated sclerites, but are believed to have a scleritomous, Halkieria-like construction.
Micrina is an extinct genus of tommotiids with affinities to brachiopods.
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