Elnestangen, Ogygiocaris Shale (Ordovician to of Norway)

Where: Asker, Norway (59.8° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° S, 10.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Engervik Member (Elnes Formation), Uhaku to Uhaku (466.0 - 460.9 Ma)

• "Ogygiocaris Shale, 4a alpha", in Nikolaisen (1983) & "4aα3 Ogygiocaris Shale", in Henningsmoen 1960

Environment/lithology: 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 167004: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 06.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Sculptaspis insculpta Nikolaisen 1983 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ogygiocaris dilatata1 Brünnich 1781 trilobite
Ogygiocaris sarsi1 Angelin 1878 trilobite
Ogygiocaris sarsi sarsi
Ogygiocaris striolata1 Henningsmoen 1960 trilobite
Ogygiocaris striolata corrugata
Pseudomegalaspis patagiata1 Törnquist 1884 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Telephina (Telephina) norvegica2 Nikolaisen 1963 trilobite