Finngrundet drill core 25.15 m (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (61.0° N, 18.6° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° S, 7.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asaphus "raniceps" trilobite zone, Valaste (471.8 - 466.0 Ma)

• Trilobite zone correlative with Didymograptus "bifidus" graptolite zone and the Valaste Substage of the Kundan Stage (Baltoscandia).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, red, muddy limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: core, mechanical,

Primary reference: T. E. Tjernvik and J. V. Johansson. 1980. Description of the upper portion of the drill-core from Finngrundet in the South Bothnian Bay. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 8:173-204 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198032: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 07.12.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Agerina sp. Tjernvik 1956 trilobite