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Abstract
A large temporary ditch excavation made in April, 1967 in the Rävatofta district (west-central Scania) exposed a section through the local bedrock of which excavated material has been investigated.
On the basis of evidence from trilobites, graptolites, bracbiopods, conodonts, and chitinozoans it is concluded that the beds cut through represent parts of two biostratigraphic units, probably separated by a fault, viz., the Peltura minor Zone of the Olenid Series (U. Cambrian) and the Diplograptus multidens Zone of the Dicellograptus Shale (M. Ordovician). Cambrian beds were previously not recorded from the Rävatofta district and Middle Ordovician strata in situ had been reported only from a small temporary exposure.
In the ditch section there are at least three dolerite dykes, two of which are more than 10 metres across.
From the scanty evidence now available it is suggested that the pre-Silurian rocks of Rävatofta occupy an area of at least two square kilometres within the wide area of Silurian in central Scania.