Nærsnes area (Cambrian of Norway)

Where: Norway (59.8° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° S, 22.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; limestone

• black stinkstone lens, shale

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: N. Spjeldnaes. 1954. Middle Cambrian stratigraphy in the Röyken area, Oslo region. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 34 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155476: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus parvifrons Linnarsson 1869
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
? Ptychagnostus sp. Jaekel 1909
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Peronopsis fallax Linnarsson 1869
spp. ferox
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Agraulidae
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae