Mösseberg, Bestorp (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Dalarne, Sweden (58.2° N, 13.5° E: paleocoordinates 29.0° S, 6.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Loka Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• "Brachiopod Shales" = Tommarp Beds = Loka Formation see Ebbestad et al. (2007)

•Was given as Öglunda member, but that is for the Katian Jonstorp formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: E. Warburg. 1925. The Trilobites of the Leptæna Limestone in Dalarne. Leptæna Limestone Trilobites 1-446 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161738: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 11.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Lichida - Lichidae
Lichas affinis Angelin 1854 trilobite
Lichas laciniatus Wahlenberg 1818 trilobite