Also known as SSF 8.13
Where: Sweden (55.5° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° S, 31.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gislov Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gislöv Fm, which unconformably overlies the Rispebjerg Sandstone, and is overlain by the Alum Shale. AGE: Late Atdabanian, on the basis of trilobite biostratigraphy; Holmia kjerulfi trilobite zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed D in local stratigraphic section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pyritic, gray, silty shale
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 87212: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
? Holmia sp. Matthew 1890 trilobite | |
Ellipsocephalus cf. nordenskioeldi, "Proampyx grandis" = Cuneoaxiella grandis
Ellipsocephalus cf. nordenskioeldi trilobite
"Proampyx grandis" = Cuneoaxiella grandis Ahlberg and Bergstrom 1978 trilobite | |
Helcionelloida | |
? Helcionella sp. Grabau and Shimer 1909 |