Slemmestad area (Cambrian of Norway)

Where: Norway (59.8° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° S, 22.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Cambrian (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; limestone

• an abundance of other rocks, such as quartz and fragments of dark shale and limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: N. Spjeldnaes. 1954. Middle Cambrian stratigraphy in the Röyken area, Oslo region. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 34 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155475: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
Paradoxides paradoxissimus Wahlenberg 1821 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
"Ptychagnostus (Triplagnostus) gibbus" = Triplagnostus gibbus, Ptychagnostus punctuosus
"Ptychagnostus (Triplagnostus) gibbus" = Triplagnostus gibbus Linnarsson 1869
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840