Tommarp, Lindegård Mudstone, "Staurocephalus Beds" (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (55.5° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 33.3° S, 6.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lindegård Mudstone Formation, Pirgu (449.5 - 445.2 Ma)

• "grey clay shale belonging to the zone of Staurocephalus clavifrons", in Regnell 1945

•" Staurocephalus Beds", in Owens (2004)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. Regnéll. 1945. Non-Crinoid Pelmatozoa from the Paleozoic of Sweden. Meddelanden från Lunds Geologisk-Mineralogiska Institution 108:1-255 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162444: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 25.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

 Rhombifera - Caryocystitidae
Heliocrinites sp. Eichwald 1840
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Paraproetus brevifrons Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Proetida - Rorringtoniidae
Rorringtonia scanica Olin 1906 trilobite
Solariproetus prosthemesos Owens 2004 trilobite