Where: Norway (59.9° N, 10.8° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 15.2° S, 57.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Vik Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lime mudstone and shale
Collection methods: Lists from 10 m and 32 m above base of Vik Formation (table 22.1) and from text. Table 22.1 gives absolute specimen counts.
Primary reference: B. G. Baarli, H. B. Keilen, and M. E. Johnson. 1999. Silurian communities of the Oslo Region, Norway. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 327-349 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14264: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 29.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Graptolithina | |
Graptolithina indet. graptolite | |
Trilobita | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
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Glassia sp. Davidson 1881 | |
"Cyrtia exporrecta" = Cyrtia exporrectus, Eospirifer sp.
"Cyrtia exporrecta" = Cyrtia exporrectus Wahlenberg 1818
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913 | |
Dolerorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Dicoelosia alticavata Whittard and Barker 1950 | |
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophomenida indet. Opik 1934 | |
Leptaena purpurea Cocks 1968 | |
Eoplectodonta penkillensis Reed 1917 | |
Leangella sp. Opik 1933 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Anthozoa | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral |