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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Sericoidea sp. Lindström 1953 | |
Ostracoda | |
Hesslandella gunnari ostracod | |
Primitiella spiniger ostracod | |
Steusloffia costata ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite |