Digermul Peninsula, Innerlev Member: Ediacaran, Norway

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Hiemalora sp. Fedonkin 1982
Cyclomedusa sp. Sprigg 1947
synonym of Aspidella
? Ediacaria sp. Sprigg 1947
? Nimbia sp.
Vendotaenia sp. Gnilovskaya 1971
Beltanella sp. Sprigg 1947
see common names

Geography
Country:Norway
Coordinates: 70.6° North, 28.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.0° South, 13.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ediacaran
Key time interval:Ediacaran
Age range of interval:635.00000 - 538.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Stappogiedde Member:Innerelv
Regional section:Digermul Peninsula Regional bed:1
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Combined section from several localities, but fossil data for each horizon supposedly from one locality. Age given as Vendian - now Ediacaran
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: Two rapid shallowing upwards cycles separating periods of quiet sedimentation with muddy siltstones
and turdidite-like sandstones that become more frequent upwards.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:51870
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-06-29 06:51:36 Last modified:2007-05-18 06:11:24
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-29 06:51:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13812. T. P. Crimes and D. McIlroy. 1999. A biota of Ediacaran aspect from lower Cambrian strata on the Digermul Peninsula, Arctic Norway. Geological Magazine 136(6):633-642 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]