Also known as Reef 3672
Where: Sweden (57.7° N, 18.3° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 3.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tofta Formation, Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)
• Tofta Formation is also known as Kopparsvik Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified wackestone and lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: R. Watkins. 1992. Paleoecology of a low-diversity Silurian community from the Tofta Beds of Gotland. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 66:405-413 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 77535: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Tryplasmatidae indet. Etheridge 1907 horn coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Actinodictyon tenue stromatoporoid sponge | |
Clathrodictyon kudriavzevi Riabinin 1951 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Gastropoda | |
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
Poleumita discors Sowerby 1814 snail | |
Platyceratoidea indet. Hall 1859 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Septatrypa cf. subaequalis Bassett 1979 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882 | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Herrmannina phaseolus ostracod | |
unclassified | |
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Cyanophyceae | |
Hedstroemia sp. Rothpletz 1913 |