Digermul Peninsula, Upper Breivik Member (Cambrian of Norway)

Where: Norway (70.6° N, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.1° S, 8.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Breivik Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• Combined section from several localities, but fossil data for each horizon supposedly from one locality. Unclear if this collection is actually sepearate from previous one, or they are the same with unresolved age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

• Offshore shelf sediments deposited around storm wave base, silt dominated with thin heavily

•bioturbated sands. Sandstones are common at the top and bottom of this member. Bioturbation increases in intensity through time and reaches its acme in red-purple interbedded

•sands and silts at the very top. The ichnofabrics are dominated by Thalassinoides and Teichichnus ispp.

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 51874: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 29.06.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae
Platysolenites sp., Platysolenites antiquissimus
Platysolenites sp. Eichwald 1860
Orthothecimorpha
 Circothecida -
Ladatheca cylindrica
 Ichnofossils -
Teichichnus sp., Thalassinoides sp.
Teichichnus sp. Seilacher 1955
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944