Saltboden core, 2aβ zone (Cambrian of Norway)

Where: Norway (59.8° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° S, 24.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cambrian (538.8 - 485.4 Ma)

• "2aβ, zone of Olenus and Homagnostus obesus", 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

Collection methods: core

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 194054: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 12.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
"Agnostus (Homagnostus) obesus" = Homagnostus obesus
"Agnostus (Homagnostus) obesus" = Homagnostus obesus Belt 1867