Where: Vestergotland, Sweden (58.0° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.7° S, 8.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fjacka Shale Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• Listed as Upper Caradoc

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; poorly lithified, pyritic, argillaceous shale and lithified, concretionary limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: concretion, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: 7 cm diameter core sample, but with some vertical averaging; zone of Pleurograptus linearis and Climacograptus styloideus; F1a and F1b age according to Sheehan, 1979: 64

Primary reference: G. Henningsmoen. 1948. The Tretaspis Series of the Kullatorp Core. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 32:374-432 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76080: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 12.11.2007

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