Finngrundet drill core 46.75 m: Volkhovian, Sweden
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Megistaspis (Megistaspis) simon
Tjernvik and Johansson 1980
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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] |