Where: Sweden (58.0° N, 15.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.9° S, 6.7° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Fjacka Shale Formation, Actonian to Actonian (454.0 - 449.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale
Primary reference: P. M. Sheehan. 1977. Swedish Late Ordovician marine benthic assemblages and their bearing on brachiopod biogeography. In J. Grey and A. J. Boucot (eds.), Historical biogeography, plate tectonics, and the changing environment 61-73 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2772: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 18.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia | |
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid | |
Orthograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Diplograptus sp. graptolite | |
Dicellograptus sp. Hopkinson 1871 graptolite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Drabovia sp. Havlicek 1950 | |
Strophomenata | |
Sericoidea sp. Lindström 1953 |