13.19-15.58 m, Kyrkbäcken rivulet, south-east part of Röstanga (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Skåne, Sweden (56.0° N, 13.3° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° S, 6.8° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eodilldymelle pulchra trilobite zone, Jerrestad Formation, Pirgu (449.5 - 445.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous shale and fine-grained, gray limestone

• Very dense shale, interbedded with three fine-grained, dark-grey limestone beds. In the limestones and upper shales no fossils were found The

•lower shale, however, contains fragments of Tr. granulata.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Lund University

Primary reference: C. Pålsson. 1995. Middle-Upper Ordovician trilobites and stratigraphy along the Kyrkbacken rivulet in the Rostånga area, southern Sweden. Examensarbeten i geologi vid Lunds Universitet 20(63):1-26 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153977: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.01.2014

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Taxonomic list

• The limestone is very rich in fragments of trilobites, ostracodes, bivalves, brachiopods and gastropods
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Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
"Tretaspis granulata" = Nankinolithus granulatus
"Tretaspis granulata" = Nankinolithus granulatus Wahlenberg 1818 trilobite