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The Spence Shale Lagerstätte: an important window into Cambrian biodiversity

View ORCID ProfileJulien Kimmig, Luke C. Strotz, Sara R. Kimmig, View ORCID ProfileSven O. Egenhoff and View ORCID ProfileBruce S. Lieberman
Journal of the Geological Society, 176, 609-619, 29 March 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-195
Julien Kimmig
1Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
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3Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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The Spence Shale Member of the Langston Formation is a Cambrian (Miaolingian: Wuliuan) Lagerstätte in northeastern Utah and southeastern Idaho. It is older than the more well-known Wheeler and Marjum Lagerstätten from western Utah, and the Burgess Shale from Canada. The Spence Shale shares several species with these younger deposits, yet it also contains a remarkable number of unique species. Because of its relatively broad geographical distribution, and the variety of palaeoenvironments and taphonomy, the fossil composition and likelihood of recovering weakly skeletonized (or soft-bodied) taxa varies across localities. The Spence Shale is widely acknowledged not only for its soft-bodied taxa, but also for its abundant trilobites and hyoliths. Recent discoveries from the Spence Shale include problematic taxa and provide insights about the nature of palaeoenvironmental and taphonomic variation between different localities.

Supplementary material: A generic presence–absence matrix of the Spence Shale fauna and a list of the Spence Shale localities are available at: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4423145

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The Spence Shale Lagerstätte: an important window into Cambrian biodiversity

Julien Kimmig, Luke C. Strotz, Sara R. Kimmig, Sven O. Egenhoff and Bruce S. Lieberman
Journal of the Geological Society, 176, 609-619, 29 March 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-195
Julien Kimmig
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Journal of the Geological Society, 176, 609-619, 29 March 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-195
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