Kalvøya, Upper Chasmops Limestone (Ordovician to of Norway)

Where: Norway (59.9° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 31.8° S, 9.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Dicranograptus clingani graptolite zone, Nakholmen Formation, Oandu to Oandu (453.0 - 450.5 Ma)

• Upper Chasmops Limestone

•= Solvang Formation (Owen & Bruton, 1980)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Owens. 1970. The middle Ordovician of the Oslo region, Norway 23. The Trilobite Family Proetidae. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 50:309-332 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162633: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 30.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Deacybele gracilis1 Nikolaisen 1961 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Flexicalymene jemtlandica" = Flexicalymene (Onnicalymene) jemtlandica1, Pharostoma narinosum2, "Prionocheilus narinosus" = Prionocheilus foveolatum1
"Flexicalymene jemtlandica" = Flexicalymene (Onnicalymene) jemtlandica1 Thorslund 1940 trilobite
Pharostoma narinosum2 Siveter 1977 trilobite
"one metre below the Lower Tretaspis Shale", in Siveter (1976)
"Prionocheilus narinosus" = Prionocheilus foveolatum1 Törnquist 1884 trilobite
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
Harpidella sp.1 M'Coy 1849 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Decoroproetus solenotus Owens 1970 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Lonchodomas aff. pennatus1 Latouche 1884 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
Platylichas laxatus1 McCoy 1846 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Stenopareia glaber1 Kjerulf 1865 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Stygina minor1 Skjeseth 1955 trilobite