Where: Vestergotland, Sweden (58.0° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.7° S, 8.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fjacka Shale Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• Listed as Upper Caradoc
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; poorly lithified, pyritic, argillaceous shale and lithified, concretionary limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: replaced with pyrite
Collection methods: 7 cm diameter core sample, but with some vertical averaging; zone of Pleurograptus linearis and Climacograptus styloideus; F1a and F1b age according to Sheehan, 1979: 64
Primary reference: G. Henningsmoen. 1948. The Tretaspis Series of the Kullatorp Core. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 32:374-432 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 76079: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 12.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Porifera indet. Grant 1836 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Climacograptus cf. minimus climacograptid | |
Dicellograptus johnstrupi graptolite | |
"Diplograptus cf. truncatus" = Rectograptus truncatus, "Diplograptus truncatus" = Rectograptus truncatus
"Diplograptus cf. truncatus" = Rectograptus truncatus Lapworth 1876 graptolite | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Ostracoda | |
Kinnekullea waerni ostracod
Kinnekullea thorslundi ostracod | |
"Biflabellum vestrogothicum" = Oepikium
"Biflabellum vestrogothicum" = Oepikium ostracod | |
Laccoprimitia nigra ostracod
Primitiella tenera ostracod | |
Bromidella linnarssoni ostracod | |
Artiopoda | |
Trilobita | |
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Hyolitha | |
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Strophomenata | |
"? Sowerbyella cf. restricta" = Sericoidea restricta
"? Sowerbyella cf. restricta" = Sericoidea restricta Hadding 1913 Jaanusson, 1965: p. 13 placed this specimen in Sericoidea
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Rhynchonellata | |
Orthis bancrofti Originally "dalmanellid articulate indet."; Sheehan, 1979 notes the dalmanellid is "Orthis bancrofti"
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Lingulata | |
Paterula cf. bohemica Barrande 1879 | |
Hisingerella nitens Hisinger 1837 | |
Polychaeta | |
Lepidocoleus suecicus scale worm | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail |