Varanger Peninsula, Stappogiedde Fm., Finmark - Vidal et. al 1992: Ediacaran, Norway

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Medusinites sp. Sprigg 1949
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
tentative trace fossil - reinterpretted as being formed by dewatering of water saturated sands.
Arenicolites sp. Salter 1857
reinterpretted as being formed by dewatering of water saturated sands.
see common names

Geography
Country:Norway State/province:Finmark
Coordinates: 70.9° North, 28.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:55.7° South, 14.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ediacaran
*Period:Neoproterozoic *Epoch:Late/Upper Ediacara
Key time interval:Ediacaran Zone: Kullingia
Age range of interval:635.00000 - 541.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Stappogiedde Member:Innerelv
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The Innerelv Member is in the same stratigraphic section as the basal portions of the the Lower Brevik Formation which is Vendian in age. The member is 275m thick and sonsists of two shallowing-upward sequences, each representing a transition from offshore marine (below wave-base) to wave-influenced, shallowing subtidal and intertidal deposition.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:wave ripples,"cross stratification" lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: General for the member: interbedded greenish-grey shales and fine-grained, ripple cross-laminated sandstoens (south westerly paleocurrent interpretted from asymmetrical ripple marks) with thick interbeds of medium to coarse, parallel laminated sandstones with rippled tops and deformation due to slumping and loading. Fossils found in a group of beds comprised of fine sandstones with ripple cross-laminations, climbing ripples, and thin mudstone interbeds.
Environment:shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:10249
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-03-20 12:03:00 Last modified:2009-09-08 23:02:49
Access level:the public Released:2001-03-20 12:03:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3814. J. Farmer, G. Vidal, M. Moczydlowska, H. Strauss, P. Ahlberg and A. Siedlecka. 1992. Edicaran fossils from the Innerelv Member (late Proterozoic) of the Tanafjorden area, northeastern Finmark. Geological Magazine 2:181-195 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]