Where: Vastergotland, Sweden (58.0° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.7° S, 8.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Dalby Formation), Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• Listed as Lower Caradoc. 7 cm diameter core sample, but with some vertical averaging; equivalent to Estonian age C2 according to Sheehan, 1979: 64

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, lenticular, gray, argillaceous limestone and bentonitic, gray, calcareous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: V. Jaanusson. 1965. The Viruan (Middle Ordovician) of Kinnekulle and northern Billingen, Vastergotland. Bulletin of Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 43(1):1-73 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77084: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 19.12.2007

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