Where: Norway (70.6° N, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° S, 8.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Duolbasgaissa Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)
• Combined section from several localities, but fossil data for each horizon supposedly from one locality. Unclear if this collection is actually sepearate from previous one, or they are the same with unresolved age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone and lithified sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: T. P. Crimes and D. McIlroy. 1999. A biota of Ediacaran aspect from lower Cambrian strata on the Digermul Peninsula, Arctic Norway. Geological Magazine 136(6):633-642 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51875: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 29.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Salterellidae | |
Volborthella tenuis Schmidt 1888 |