Where: Sweden (61.0° N, 18.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.1° S, 7.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Megistaspis (Megistaspis) limbata trilobite zone, Langevoja (471.8 - 469.2 Ma)
• Trilobite zone correlative the Langevojan Substage of the Volkhovian 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 198071: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 07.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Agerina sp. Tjernvik 1956 trilobite | |
Megistaspis (Megistaspis) limbata Boeck 1838 trilobite |