Digermul Peninsula, Lower Breivik Member 3: Manykaian, Norway
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Orthothecimorpha
- Circothecida
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Ladatheca cylindrica
(Grabau 1900)
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Bathysiphonidae
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Platysolenites sp.
Eichwald 1860
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Platysolenites antiquissimus
Eichwald 1860
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Geography
| Country: | Norway |
| Coordinates: | 70.6° North, 28.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.7° South, 5.3° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Terreneuvian |
| Stage: | Fortunian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 1 |
| Key time interval: | Manykaian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 538.80000 - 529.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Breivik | Member: | Lower | ||
| Local section: | Digermul Peninsula | Local bed: | 4 | ||
| 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 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
| Geology comments: Shallow marine sedimentation, at or around fair weather wave base.
Contains abundant, thin, event-beds that preserve a diverse ichnofauna. The sands are deposited unidirectional currents with occasional wave ripples and heavily bioturbated offshore shelf mudstones. | |
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: | 51873 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-06-29 07:06:31 | Last modified: | 2018-08-16 13:09:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-29 07:06:31 |
| 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] |