Sandby, 2dε zone: Furongian, Sweden

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Niobella primaeva (Westergard 1909)
see common names

Geography
Country:Sweden State/province:Skåne
Coordinates: 55.7° North, 13.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.5° South, 21.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Furongian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 5
Key time interval: Furongian Trilobite zone:  Acerocare ecorne
Age range of interval: 497 - 485.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:2dε
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: "2dε, Zone of Acerocare", in Henningsmoen 1958. PJW: Terfelt et al. 2011 put this in the Acerocare ecorne zone, which is latest Cambrian. This should be part of the Alum Shale, which has many limestone & mudstone lenses.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: "a sequence of black bituminous shales (alum shales) with concretions and an occasional layer of black bituminous limestone (stinkstone)."
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:194105
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:P. Wagner
Created:2018-06-14 03:30:03 Last modified:2019-03-07 11:10:37
Access level:the public Released:2018-06-14 03:30:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
65904. G. Henningsmoen. 1958. The Upper Cambrian faunas of Norway with descriptions of non-olenid invertebrate fossils. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 38:180-194 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

68083 F. Terfelt, P. Ahlberg, and M. E. Eriksson. 2011. Complete record of Furongian polymerid trilobites and agnostoids of Scandinavia – a biostratigraphical scheme. Lethaia 44(1):8-14 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]