"alvar" SE of Tokenäs hamn (power-line 4) (Ordovician of Sweden)

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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 limestone

• variegated greyish green and red limestone, scattered grains of phosphorie

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 188298: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 27.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

• brachiopod rich
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Megalaspis gigas" = Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) gigas Angelin 1878 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx cf. nasutus Dalman 1827 trilobite