Where: Bayern, Germany (50.2° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 104.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Galgenberg Formation, Middle Cambrian (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)

• very early Middle Cambrian = Agdzian (West Gondwana stage)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: I. A. Rahman, S. Zamora, and G. Geyer. 2010. The oldest stylophoran echinoderm: a new Ceratocystis from the middle Cambrian of Germany. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 84:227-237 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97598: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.08.2010