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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Xiphosura | |
Eolimulus alata n. gen. n. sp.
Eolimulus alata n. gen. n. sp. Moberg 1892 |