Slätö island, erratic boulder, Obolus beds (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Uppland, Sweden (60.2° N, 18.7° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° S, 12.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Varangu (485.4 - 484.5 Ma)

• "Obolus beds"

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: "One erratic boulder from Slätö (housed in SGU, Uppsala, collected by N.O. Holst in 1883)", in Puura & Holmer (1993)

Primary reference: I. Puura and L. E. Holmer. 1993. Lingulate brachiopods from the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary beds in Sweden. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 115(3):215-237 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191681: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 08.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Paltodus subaequalis Pander 1856 conodont
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Cordylodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
Cordylodus rotundatus Pander 1856 conodont
Cordylodus angulatus Pander 1856 conodont
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Ungula ingrica Eichwald 1829