Slemmestad, Ogygiocaris Shale (Ordovician of Norway)

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

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

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

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 167018: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 06.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ogygiocaris sarsi Angelin 1878 trilobite
Ogygiocaris sarsi regina
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Robergia sparsa Nikolaisen 1983 trilobite