Also known as Was: Paradoxides zone, Norway
Where: Rogaland, Norway (59.3° N, 6.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° S, 24.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Acadoparadoxides oelandicus trilobite zone, Amgan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)
• Listed as Lower to Middle Cambrian, Paradoxides (=Eccaparadoxides?) oelandicus age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Full fauna from one mountainside outcrop, but with 30-60 m of stratigraphic sampling, including some loose blocks
Primary reference: G. Henningsmoen. 1952. Early Middle Cambrian fauna from Rogaland, SW Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tiddskrift 30:13-31 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/B. Kröger]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 76545: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 23.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Hexactinellida | |
Protospongia sp. Salter 1864 glass sponge | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920 | |
Lingulata | |
Acrothele (Redlichella) granulata Linnarsson 1876 | |
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866 | |
"Acrotreta socialis" = Treptotreta socialis
"Acrotreta socialis" = Treptotreta socialis Seebach 1865 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932 | |
Hyolitha | |
Orthotheca teretiuscula Linnarsson 1877 | |
Hyolithes obesus Holm 1893 | |
Trilobita | |
Paradoxides pinus Westergard 1936 trilobite
Paradoxides oelandicus Sjögren 1872 trilobite | |
Ptychoparia anderseni Henningsmoen 1952 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Peronopsis fallax Linnarsson 1869 |