Tokenäs hamn trilobites, lower beds (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (57.3° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° S, 8.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holen Formation, Kunda (469.2 - 464.3 Ma)

• Age and stratigraphy based on Nordlund 1989 (GFF 111:64-94) and Struresson 1986 (GFF 108:331-348).

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: B. Bohlin. 1949. The Asaphus Limestone in northernmost Öland. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Uppsala 33:529-570 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188216: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 25.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

• brachiopod rich
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Cybele bellatula Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Cyrtometopus clavifrons Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphus raniceps Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
Lichas sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite