Where: Sweden (57.3° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° S, 8.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Asaphus expansus trilobite zone, Holen Formation, Kunda (468.1 - 463.5 Ma)
• Age and stratigraphy based on Nordlund 1989 (GFF 111:64-94) and Struresson 1986 (GFF 108:331-348).
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, nodular marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1947
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: B. Bohlin. 1949. The Asaphus Limestone in northernmost Ă–land. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Uppsala 33:529-570 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188270: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 27.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scyphozoa | |
Conularia ? aurora jellyfish | |
Strophomenata | |
Antigonambonites sp. Opik 1934 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830 | |
Lycophoria nucella Dalman 1828 | |
Stenolaemata | |
? Monticulipora sp. d'Orbigny 1850 | |
Trilobita | |
Ptychopyge angustifrons trilobite
Asaphus ? raniceps Dalman 1827 trilobite
Asaphus expansus Wahlenberg 1821 trilobite | |
Pterygometopus sp. Schmidt 1881 trilobite |