Where: Vastergotland, Sweden (58.0° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.7° S, 8.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Dalby Formation), Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• Listed as Middle Caradoc
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; poorly lithified, gray, calcareous shale and lithified, gray, argillaceous limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: trace
Collection methods: 7 cm diameter core sample, but with some vertical averaging; equivalent to Estonian age C3/D1 according to Sheehan, 1979: 64
Primary reference: P. Thorslund. 1948. The Chasmops Series of the Kullatorp Core. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala, New Series 32:343-373 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 76906: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 07.12.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Asaphus (Neoasaphus) sp. Jaanusson 1953 trilobite | |
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Primitiella spiniger ostracod | |
"Parapyxion sp." = Vogdesella
"Parapyxion sp." = Vogdesella ostracod | |
Primitia subovata ostracod | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Amplexograptus sp. graptolite |