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. Core sample with some vertical averaging; equivalent to Estonian age C3/D1 according to Sheehan, 1979: 64
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray, calcareous lime mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: V. Jaanusson. 1965. The Viruan (Middle Ordovician) of Kinnekulle and northern Billingen, Vastergotland. Bulletin of Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 43(1):1-73 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77083: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 19.12.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda | |
Pyxion kinnekullensis ostracod | |
"Parapyxion subovatum" = Vogdesella
"Parapyxion subovatum" = Vogdesella ostracod | |
Steusloffia sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1908 ostracod | |
Actinochilina suecica ostracod | |
Conchoprimitia cf. conchoides ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Asaphus (Neoasaphus) cf. ludibundus Törnquist 1884 trilobite | |
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite | |
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
Palaeostrophomena sp. Holtedahl 1916 | |
Hyolitha | |
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid
Pseudoclimacograptus vestrogothicus climacograptid
Pseudoclimacograptus sp. climacograptid | |
"Glyptograptus cf. teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus, Diplograptus molestus
"Glyptograptus cf. teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus Hisinger 1840 graptolite
Diplograptus molestus graptolite |