Where: Sweden (61.0° N, 18.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 8.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) armata graptolite zone, Billingen (474.8 - 471.1 Ma)
• Correlative with earliest dichograptid fauna; within the Billingenian substage of the Latorpian Stage (Baltoscandia).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, gray, 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 198233: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 09.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Falanaspis aliena Tjernvik 1956 trilobite |