@article{9a53bc1c2987495380422c59cf40ab69,
title = "Unusual preservation of an Ordovician (Floian) arthropod from Peary Land, North Greenland (Laurentia)",
abstract = "Preservation of a fragment of an arthropod from starved trough sediments of the B{\o}ggild Fjord Formation (Ordovician, Floian) of Johannes V. Jensen Land in north Peary Land, North Greenland, recalls that of the lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerst{\"a}tte of extreme north-west Peary Land and may suggest a second locality for exceptional preservation in North Greenland. A prominent petaloid pattern on the tergopleurae reflects impression onto the internal mould of terrace lines from the cuticle exterior. The arthropod is associated with poorly preserved sponges and a depauperate assemblage of organic-walled microfossils. It is tentatively compared to Mollisonia, originally described from the Burgess Shale Lagerst{\"a}tte (middle Cambrian, Miaolingian Series) of Canada.",
keywords = "Arthropod, Floian, Laurentia, North Greenland, Ordovician, Preservation",
author = "Peel, {John S.} and Sebastian Willman and Pedersen, {Stig A.Schack}",
note = "Funding Information: Open access funding provided by Uppsala University. Jean-Bernard Caron (Royal Ontario Museum) kindly provided the coloured photograph of Mollisonia symmetrica (USNM 189155) from which Fig.?2 c, g was prepared. Thanks are due to J.P. Botting (National Museum of Wales) for comments concerning the sponge remains, to Elise Wallet (Uppsala University) for photography of OWM (Fig.?4), and to Arden Roy Bashforth (Natural History Museum of Denmark), John Boserup (GEUS) and Jon Ineson (GEUS) for help with regard to collections of their respective institutions. J.O.R. Ebbestad (Museum of Evolution, Uppsala), Xingliang Zhang (Northwest University, Xi?an) and the Editor-in-Chief Mike Reich (SNSB-BSPG Munich) are thanked for comments on the submitted manuscript. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, The Author(s).",
year = "2020",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s12542-019-00481-y",
language = "English",
volume = "94",
pages = "41--51",
journal = "PalZ",
issn = "0031-0220",
publisher = "Springer",
number = "1",
}