Digermul Peninsula, Lower Duolbasgaissa Member 1: Atdabanian, Norway
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Salterellidae
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Volborthella tenuis
Schmidt 1888
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Geography
| Country: | Norway |
| Coordinates: | 70.6° North, 28.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.4° South, 8.8° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Series 2 |
| Stage: | Stage 3 | 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 2 |
| Key time interval: | Atdabanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 521.00000 - 515.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Duolbasgaissa | Member: | Lower | ||
| Local section: | Digermul Peninsula | Local bed: | 6 | ||
| Local 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. Unclear if this collection is actually sepearate from previous one, or they are the same with unresolved age. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | offshore |
| Geology comments: Offshore sandstones and siltstones deposited close to fair-weather wave base, the quartarenites are wave dominated and are lithologically identical to those in the overlying member but are unbioturbated. | |
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: | 51875 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-06-29 07:11:16 | Last modified: | 2018-07-05 02:05:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-29 07:11:16 |
| 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] |