Also known as Olenus Zone, Oland, Sweden - Muller 1983
Where: Öland, Sweden (56.3° N, 16.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 20.7° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Agnostus pisiformis small shelly zone, Alum Formation, Maentwrogian (501.0 - 485.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, black, gray limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with phosphate
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 9892: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 30.01.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crustacea | |
Hesslandona sp. Mueller 1964 | |
Oelandocaris oelandica n. gen. n. sp.
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