Where: Finnmark, Norway (70.9° N, 28.7° E: paleocoordinates 55.7° S, 14.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Breivik Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone
Preservation: trace
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. Farmer, G. Vidal, M. Moczydlowska, H. Strauss, P. Ahlberg and A. Siedlecka. 1992. Edicaran fossils from the Innerelv Member (late Proterozoic) of the Tanafjorden area, northeastern Finmark. Geological Magazine 2:181-195 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10250: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 20.03.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Vendotaenia | |
Vendotaenia sp. Gnilovskaya 1971 | |
Cochlichnus sp. Hitchcock 1858
Phycodes pedum Seilacher 1955
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
Gyrolithes sp. de Saporta 1884 |