Muggerudkleiva, Ogygiocaris Shale (Ordovician of Norway)

Where: Norway (59.8° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 11.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Elnes Formation, Uhaku (459.7 - 458.0 Ma)

• "Ogygiocaris Shale, 4a alpha", in Nikolaisen (1983) & Henningsmoen (1960)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: F. Nikolaisen. 1983. The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway, 32. Trilobites of the family Remopleurididae. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 62:231-329 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167002: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 06.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Leptelloidea sp.3 Jones 1928
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Sthenarocalymene lirella2 Siveter 1977 trilobite
Gravicalymene capitovata2 Siveter 1977 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ogmasaphus stoermeri1 Henningsmoen 1960 trilobite
Pseudomegalaspis patagiata1 Törnquist 1884 trilobite
Ogygiocaris dilatata1 Brünnich 1781 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Sculptaspis erratica Nikolaisen 1983 trilobite