Where: Norway (70.6° N, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° S, 2.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Protopeltura zone, Kistedal Formation, Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Most likely Ctenopyge postcurrens and C. flagellifera subzones of Protopeltura praecurrens zone (Scandinavian zonation), or slightly younger, which places collection in Jiangshanian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by G. Henningsmoen in 1961, 1963

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. Nikolaisen and G. Henningsmoen. 1985. Upper Cambrian and lower Tremadoc olenid trilobites from the Digermul peninsula, Finnmark, northern Norway. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse 400:1-49 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229868: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.04.2023

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