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The middle Lanna/Volkhov Stage (middle Arenig) of Sweden and its conodont fauna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. Löfgren
A. Löfgren*
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Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, University of Lund, Sölvegatan 13, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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Abstract

In the established European conodont zonation the Paroistodus originalis Zone represents an interval in the upper middle Arenig or middle Lanna/Volkhov Stage. I have so far found it at 14 Swedish localities, represented in my collections by more than 116 000 conodont elements from 79 limestone samples. Presence/absence data together with major frequency shifts among conodont taxa allow the recognition of five successive phases within the P. originalis Zone and the corresponding chron. Phase 1 occurs in the basal part of the zone, where an increase in frequency of Triangulodus brevibasis and P. originalis distinguishes it from immediately subjacent beds. Phase 2 corresponds to the (transgressive) lower middle part of the zone with an influx of Periodon, and Drepanoistodus basiovalis replacing D. forceps. Phase 3 is equivalent to the upper middle part of the zone with generally more than 30% of the zonal denominator and with Microzarkodina parva replacing M. flabellum. Phase 4 is a short (regressive) event where the frequency of Paroistodus is drastically lowered, and phase 5 corresponds to the upper part where Paroistodus again increases. The zone is particularly well represented at Lanna, Province of Närke, in south-central Sweden, where it also seems possible to connect the conodont succession with the standard trilobite zonation. Thus, at Lanna as well as at Finngrundet in the Bothnian Bay, Megistaspis (M.) simon first appears in the basal lower middle part of the P. originalis Zone.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 132 , Issue 6 , November 1995 , pp. 693 - 711
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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