Sandby, 2dε zone (Cambrian of Sweden)

Where: Skåne, Sweden (55.7° N, 13.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° S, 21.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Acerocare ecorne trilobite zone, 2dε Formation, Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• "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.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale and limestone

• "a sequence of black bituminous shales (alum shales) with

•concretions and an occasional layer of black bituminous limestone

•(stinkstone)."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194105: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 14.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Niobella primaeva
Niobella primaeva Westergard 1909 trilobite