Gjettum in Bærum (Silurian of Norway)

Where: Asker, Norway (59.9° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 8.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Leangen Member (Solvik Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• Middle Aeronian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone and shelly/skeletal sandstone

• "The lower range...is near the lower limits of the transition zone, and the rest of it is probably deposited entirely within the transition zone...The bioclasitc beds and fine sst interbeds interpreted as storm events...very high frequ. of storm events indicates shallow conditions...upper range of BA 4 into 3...degree of transport minimal."
• "The type sequence consists of mudstone interbedded with very abundant, thin coquinas and fine sandstones."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: At PMO.

Primary reference: B. G. Baarli. 1988. The Llandovery enteletacean brachiopods of the central Oslo region, Norway. Palaeontology 31(4):1101-1129 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160119: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Resserella matutina n. sp. Baarli 1988