Where: Bornholm, Denmark (55.0° N, 15.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° S, 28.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paradoxides forchhammeri trilobite zone, Upper Shale Member (Alum Formation), Menevian (504.5 - 499.5 Ma)

• Listed as Latest Menevian. Lejopyge laevigata trilobite subzone; Paradoxides forchhammeri zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, black shale and lithified, concretionary limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: concretion, replaced with pyrite

Primary reference: V. Berg-Madsen. 1985. A review of the Andrarum Limestone and the Upper Alum Shale (Middle Cambrian) of Bornholm, Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 34:133-143 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75944: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 06.11.2007

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