Also known as SSF 8.8

Where: Sweden (55.5° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° S, 30.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gislov Formation, Lenian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gislöv Fm, which unconformably overlies the Rispebjerg Sandstone, and is overlain by the Alum Shale. AGE: Lenian, on the basis of trilobite biostratigraphy; Proampyx linnarssoni trilobite zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed E in local stratigraphic section. Boulder is 39 cm thick and derived from the upper part of the Gislöv Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, calcareous grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Bergstrom & Ahlberg

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Presumably the authrors, Bergstrom and Ahlberg, c. 1980's. REPOSITORY: Sveriges geologiska undersökning (SGU), Tunavägen, Sweden.

Primary reference: J. Bergström and P. Ahlberg. 1981. Uppermost lower Cambrian biostratigraphy in Scania, Sweden. Geologiska Foreningens i Stockholm Forhandlingar 103(2):193-214 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87186: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.03.2009

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