Tømten Farm, Lake Mjøsa, from loose block (Cambrian of Norway)

Where: Ringsaker, Norway (60.9° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° S, 23.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Evjevik Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• "from the uppermost Lower Cambrian , Evjevik ('Strenuella') Limestone", in Nikolaisen 1986

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous limestone

• "The Evjevik Limestone consists of two beds of bioclastic arenaceous limestone,

•each 20--25 cm thick and parted by about l m of shale devoid of fossils (Kiær 1917, p. 9).", in Nikolaisen, 1986

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: F. Nikolaisen. 1986. Olenellid trilobites from the uppermost Lower Cambrian Evjevik Limestone at Tømten in Ringsaker, Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 66:305-309 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191089: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 09.01.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Holmiidae
Holmia kjerulfi, Kjerulfia lata
Holmia kjerulfi Linnarsson 1871 trilobite
Kjerulfia lata Kiaer 1917 trilobite