Ekerums hamn sandstone boulder (Cambrian of Sweden)

Where: Öland, Sweden (56.8° N, 16.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° S, 29.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cambrian (541.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• Bertstrom correlates boulder with "upper part of the Lower Cambrian sandstone sequence. ... "section VI in the Boda hamm (60 Km to the NNE of Ekerum) core (cf., Hessland 1955), which is of late Early Cambrian age."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; micaceous, yellow sandstone

• "loose, micaceous and yellowish sandstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with phosphate

Collected by Holst in pre-1892

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: J. Bergström. 1968. Eolimulus, A Lower Cambrian Xiphosurid from Sweden. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 90(4):489-503 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210576: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 04.06.2020

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Taxonomic list

Xiphosura
 Xiphosurida - Eolimulidae
Eolimulus alata n. gen. n. sp.
Eolimulus alata n. gen. n. sp. Moberg 1892