South of the farm Stora Bredegarden (Cambrian of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (58.5° N, 13.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° S, 19.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Maentwrogian (497.0 - 496.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black, gray limestone

• anthraconitic, black or grey with whitish bands, abundantly fossiliferous limestone called orsten occurring primarily as lenses or less frequently intercalated in black shales.

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Rocks are too coarse to preserve large macrofossils (diagentically destroyed).

Primary reference: K. J. Muller. 1983. Crustacea with preserved soft parts from the Upper Cambrian of Sweden. Lethaia 16(2):93-109 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9889: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 30.01.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Sphaerophthalmus alatus
Sphaerophthalmus alatus Boeck 1838 trilobite
Cephalocarida
 Brachypoda -
Dala peilerta n. gen. n. sp.
Dala peilerta n. gen. n. sp.
65 fragmented specimens
 Deuteropoda -
Bredocaris admirabilis n. gen. n. sp.
Bredocaris admirabilis n. gen. n. sp. Mueller 1983
over 30 specimens
Crustacea
 Phosphatocopida - Vestrogothiidae
Falites sp., Vestrogothia sp.
 Phosphatocopida - Hesslandonidae
Hesslandona sp.
Hesslandona sp. Mueller 1964