Also known as Reef 1800
Where: Sweden (56.9° N, 18.1° E: paleocoordinates 17.1° S, 2.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hamra Formation, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)
• lower Hamra Beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Nose, D. U. Schmid, and R. R. Leinfelder. 2006. Significance of microbialites, calcimicrobes, and calcareous algae in reefal framework formation from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden. Sedimentary Geology 192:243-265 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 79812: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.03.2008, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rothpletzella | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Parallelostroma sp. Nestor 1966 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Favosites forbesi tabulate coral | |
Alveolites suborbicularis Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Gastropoda | |
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Platyostoma cornutum Hisinger 1837 snail
Platyceras disciforme n. sp. Lindström 1884 snail | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |