1 km S of Frihetsli (Cambrian of Norway)

Where: Troms, Norway (68.8° N, 19.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 12.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: F3 Member (Torneträsk Formation), Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• "member F 3, Vogt 1967", in Ahlberg (1980)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale and limestone

• "...calcareous bed (member F 3, Vogt 1967) on top of a sequence of shales underlying the alum shales. This fossiliferous impure limestone

•has a maximum thickness of l. 7 m, and it is regarded as the top of the local Lower Cambrian (Vogt 1967: 14 ).", in Ahlberg (1980)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Ahlberg. 1980. Early Cambrian trilobites from northern Scandinavia. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 60:153-159 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190926: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 22.12.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolus cf. favosus
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Strenuaeva inflata
Strenuaeva inflata Ahlberg and Bergström 1978 trilobite