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