Vestfossen Railway Station, Hagastrand bed 1 (Ordovician to of Norway)

Where: Eiker-Sandsvær, Norway (59.7° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 14.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) armata trilobite zone, Hagastrand Member (Tøyen Formation), Tremadocian to Tremadocian (485.4 - 470.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: O. A. Hoel. 1999. Trilobites of the Hagastrand Member (Tøyen Formation, lowermost Arenig) from the Oslo Region, Norway, Part 1: Asaphidae. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 79:179-204 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190986: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 02.01.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Megalaspides nericiensis Wiman 1905 trilobite
Niobe (Niobella) bohlini Tjernvik 1956 trilobite