Lower Cambrian Mobergella holsti, Gotland and Oland, Sweden - Conway Morris 1997: Tommotian - Atdabanian, Sweden

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mobergellidae
Mobergella holsti
see common names

Geography
Country:Sweden State/province:Oland County:Kalmar
Coordinates: 57.5° North, 18.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.9° South, 28.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Terreneuvian - Series 2
Stage: Stage 2 - Stage 3 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian *Epoch:Early/Lower Caerfai - Middle Caerfai
*International age/stage:Tommotian - Atdabanian
Key time interval: Tommotian - Atdabanian
Age range of interval: 525.5 - 515.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: Specimen collected from Taconic stratum.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:8269
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-07-03 16:13:54 Last modified:2004-03-11 16:25:06
Access level:the public Released:2001-03-27 12:03:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

504. S. Conway Morris and A. J. Chapman. 1997. Mobergellans from the Lower Cambrian of Mongolia, Sweden, and the United States: molluscs or opercula of Incertae Sedis?. Journal of Paleontology 71(6):968-985 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]