LH5. Brattefors: Tremadoc, Sweden

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Paroistodus numarcuatus
13 elements
Paltodus deltifer (Lindström 1955)
4 elements
Paltodus deltifer deltifer
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Acodontidae
Drepanodus arcuatus Pander 1856
9 elements
synonym of Acodus similaris
see common names

Geography
Country:Sweden
Coordinates: 59.7° North, 14.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.9° South, 13.7° West
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian-Ordovician
Key time interval:Tremadoc Trilobite zone: Apatokephalus serratus
Age range of interval:485.00000 - 477.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Björkåsholmen
Local section:Brattefors Local bed:3.5 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Given as Ceratopyge Shale / Ceratopyge Limestone; that is now Björkåsholmen.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: limestone lenses within shale unit.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:203728
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2019-08-22 12:49:46 Last modified:2019-08-22 12:49:46
Access level:the public Released:2019-08-22 12:49:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

69826. A. Löfgren. 1997. Conodont faunas from the upper Tremadoc at Brattefors, south‐central Sweden, and reconstruction of the Paltodus apparatus. G.F.F 119(4):257-266 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]