PBDB Collection

Varanger Peninsula, Stappogiedde Fm., Finmark - Vidal et. al 1992 (Ediacaran of Norway)

Where: Finmark, Norway (70.9° N, 28.7° E: paleocoordinates 55.7° S, 14.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kullingia zone, Innerelv Member (Stappogiedde Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• The Innerelv Member is in the same stratigraphic section as the basal portions of the the Lower Brevik Formation which is Vendian in age. The member is 275m thick and sonsists of two shallowing-upward sequences, each representing a transition from offshore marine (below wave-base) to wave-influenced, shallowing subtidal and intertidal deposition.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone and lithified mudstone

• General for the member: interbedded greenish-grey shales and fine-grained, ripple cross-laminated sandstoens (south westerly paleocurrent interpretted from asymmetrical ripple marks) with thick interbeds of medium to coarse, parallel laminated sandstones with rippled tops and deformation due to slumping and loading. Fossils found in a group of beds comprised of fine sandstones with ripple cross-laminations, climbing ripples, and thin mudstone interbeds.

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. Farmer, G. Vidal, M. Moczydlowska, H. Strauss, P. Ahlberg and A. Siedlecka. 1992. Edicaran fossils from the Innerelv Member (late Proterozoic) of the Tanafjorden area, northeastern Finmark. Geological Magazine 2:181-195 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10249: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 20.03.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names

Medusinites
-	Medusinites sp. Medusinites sp. Sprigg 1949

Ichnofossils -	Arenicolites sp., Skolithos sp. Arenicolites sp. Salter 1857 reinterpretted as being formed by dewatering of water saturated sands. Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840 tentative trace fossil - reinterpretted as being formed by dewatering of water saturated sands.