Where: Norway (70.6° N, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° S, 5.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Breivik Formation), Manykaian (538.8 - 529.0 Ma)
• Combined section from several localities, but fossil data for each horizon supposedly from one locality
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified siltstone and lithified mudstone
•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.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51872: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 29.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scyphozoa | |
Tirasiana sp. jellyfish | |
Nimbia | |
Nimbia occlusa Fedonkin 1981 |