Digermul Peninsula, Innerlev Member (Ediacaran of Norway)

Where: Norway (70.6° N, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 56.0° S, 13.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Innerelv Member (Stappogiedde Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• Combined section from several localities, but fossil data for each horizon supposedly from one locality. Age given as Vendian - now Ediacaran

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified sandstone

• Two rapid shallowing upwards cycles separating periods of quiet sedimentation with muddy siltstones

•and turdidite-like sandstones that become more frequent upwards.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: T. P. Crimes and D. McIlroy. 1999. A biota of Ediacaran aspect from lower Cambrian strata on the Digermul Peninsula, Arctic Norway. Geological Magazine 136(6):633-642 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51870: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 29.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Vendotaenia
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Vendotaenia sp. Gnilovskaya 1971
Hiemalora
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Hiemalora sp. Fedonkin 1982
Ediacaria
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? Ediacaria sp. Sprigg 1947
Aspidella
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"Cyclomedusa sp." = Aspidella
"Cyclomedusa sp." = Aspidella Billings 1872
Nimbia
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 Life -
Beltanella sp. Sprigg 1947