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

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Skagen Limestone Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• Listed as Middle Caradoc, age is between the Mossen and Dalby formations

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous 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 77100: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 20.12.2007

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