Kårtveit, 2b zone (Ordovician of Norway)

Where: Eiker-Sandsvær, Norway (59.7° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 15.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• "2b Zone of Parabalina spinulosa.", in Henningsmoen 1958

Environment/lithology: black shale and limestone

• "a sequence of black bituminous shales (alum shales) with

•concretions and an occasional layer of black bituminous limestone

•(stinkstone)."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. Henningsmoen. 1958. The Upper Cambrian faunas of Norway with descriptions of non-olenid invertebrate fossils. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 38:180-194 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194111: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 14.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Finkelnburgiidae
Orusia lenticularis
Orusia lenticularis Wahlenberg 1821