Mælum, 2aα zone (Cambrian of Norway)

Also known as Maelum

Where: Ringsaker, Norway (60.8° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° S, 23.0° W)

When: Cambrian (538.8 - 485.4 Ma)

• "2aα, Olenid Series and Agnostus pisiformis zone", in Henningsmoen 1958

Environment/lithology: shale and limestone

• "a sequence of black bituminous shales (alum shales) with

•concretions and an occasional layer of black bituminous limestone

•(stinkstone)."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. Henningsmoen. 1958. The Upper Cambrian faunas of Norway with descriptions of non-olenid invertebrate fossils. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 38:180-194 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194050: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 12.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Agnostus (Agnostus) pisiformis
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Proceratopyge nathorsti
Proceratopyge nathorsti Westergard 1922 trilobite