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: Lower Member (Dalby Formation), Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• Listed as Lower Caradoc
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray, argillaceous mudstone and lithified, bentonitic, calcareous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: trace
Collection methods: 7 cm diameter core sample, but with some vertical averaging; equivalent to Estonian age C2 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 76909: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 07.12.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinosphaerites sp. Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Pterobranchia | |
"Glyptograptus cf. teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus
"Glyptograptus cf. teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus Hisinger 1840 graptolite | |
"Climacograptus scharenbergi" = Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi
"Climacograptus scharenbergi" = Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi Lapworth 1976 climacograptid | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Onniella sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
Strophomenata | |
Palaeostrophomena sp. Holtedahl 1916 | |
Paragastropoda | |
Clisospira sp. Billings 1865 | |
Ostracoda | |
Oecematobolbina sp. ostracod | |
Steusloffia costata ostracod
Steusloffia sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1908 ostracod | |
Laccochilina sp. Hessland 1949 ostracod | |
Sigmobolbina sp. Henningsmoen 1953 ostracod
Tallinnella dimorpha Opik 1937 ostracod | |
Uhakiella granulifera ostracod | |
Euprimitia cf. locknensis ostracod | |
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Trilobita | |
Sphaerocoryphe sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite | |
"Telephus sp." = Telephina
"Telephus sp." = Telephina Marek 1952 trilobite | |
Pseudasaphus sp. Schmidt 1901 trilobite | |
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite | |
Lonchodomas rostratus Sars 1835 trilobite |