Where: Sweden (55.9° N, 13.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 12.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vittseröd Member (Höör Formation), Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• Confirmed to be "Liassic" by Troedsson (1951). Perhaps most likely from the Vittseröd Member, which contains marine body fossils (Pieńkowski, 2002).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by F.J. Blomquist in 1904
• Repository: Swedish Museum of Natural History
Primary reference: R. T. Jackson. 1906. A new species of fossil Limulus from the Jurassic of Sweden. Arkiv för Zoologi 3(11):1-7 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 216799: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.12.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Limulus nathorsti | |
Limulus nathorsti n. sp.
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