Raftan, Ogygiocaris shale (Ordovician to of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (63.6° N, 14.8° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° S, 7.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Uhaku to Uhaku (459.7 - 460.9 Ma)

• "Lower part of Ogygiocaris shale", in Nikolaisen (1965)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: F. Nikolaisen. 1965. The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo region, Norway. 18. Rare trilobites of the families Olenidae, Harpidae, Ityophoridae and Cheiruridae. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 45:231-248 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164507: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 04.12.2014

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ogygiocaris sarsi1 Angelin 1878 trilobite
Ogygiocaris sarsi regina
 Olenida - Olenidae
Triarthrus humilis Hadding 1913 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Telephina (Telephina) intermedia2 Thorslund 1935 trilobite