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
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Trilobita | |
Solenopleura parva trilobite
Solenopleura munsteri trilobite | |
Paradoxides paradoxissimus Wahlenberg 1821 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
"Ptychagnostus (Triplagnostus) gibbus" = Triplagnostus gibbus, Ptychagnostus punctuosus
"Ptychagnostus (Triplagnostus) gibbus" = Triplagnostus gibbus Linnarsson 1869
Ptychagnostus punctuosus Angelin 1851 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Hyolitha | |
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840 |