Kårgärde 4.10 - 5.50 m (Ordovician of Sweden)

Also known as Kårgärde, Folkeslunda Fm.

Where: Dalarna, Sweden (63.0° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 31.0° S, 7.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudamplexograptus distichus graptolite zone, Folkeslunda Limestone Formation, Lasnamagi (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse-grained, gray limestone

• Medium-bedded, coarse -grained, grey to dark grey limestone with chamositic grains in some beds.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: V. Jaanusson. 1963. Lower and Middle Viruan (Middle Ordovician) of the Siljan district. Bulletin of Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 42(3):1-40 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192380: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.03.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Pseudomegalaspis patagiata Törnquist 1884 trilobite
Plectasaphus plicicostis Törnquist 1884 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
 Lingulida - Paterulidae
Paterula spp. Barrande 1879
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoideinae indet. Schuchert 1929
 Siphonotretida - Siphonotretidae
 Acrotretida - Scaphelasmatidae
Scaphelasma mica Popov 1975
 Acrotretida - Eoconulidae
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Conotreta mica Gorjansky 1969
"Physotreta deformis" = Talasotreta deformis Holmer 1989
Cephalopoda
 Lituitida - Lituitidae
Lituites sp. Bertrand 1763