Finngrundet drill core 46.75 m: Volkhovian, Sweden

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Megistaspis (Megistaspis) simon Tjernvik and Johansson 1980
see common names

Geography
Country:Sweden
Coordinates: 61.0° North, 18.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.1° South, 7.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Middle Ordovician
Stage:early Middle Ordovician 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
Key time interval:Volkhovian Trilobite zone: Megistaspis (Megistaspis) simon
Age range of interval:471.80000 - 468.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Finngrundet drill-core Local bed:46.75 m
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Trilobite zone correlative with the Isograptus gibberulus and the early (pre-Langovoja) Volkhovian Stage (Baltoscandia).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red lithified muddy "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:198116
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-12-08 12:05:53 Last modified:2018-12-08 12:05:53
Access level:the public Released:2018-12-08 12:05:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

67512. T. E. Tjernvik and J. V. Johansson. 1980. Description of the upper portion of the drill-core from Finngrundet in the South Bothnian Bay. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 8:173-204 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]