Slependen, Arnestad Fm., 4bα (Ordovician to of Norway)

Where: Asker, Norway (59.9° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 31.8° S, 9.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Diplograptus foliaceus graptolite zone, Arnestad Formation, Haljala to Haljala (460.9 - 455.8 Ma)

• "Lower Chasmops Shale 4bα", in Nikolaisen (1961)= Arnestad Fm.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: F. Nikolaisen. 1961. The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway 7. Trilobites of the suborder Cheirurina. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 41(2-4):279-310 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191107: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 10.01.2018

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Ptychoglyptus valdari" = Ptychoglyptus irregularis2
"Ptychoglyptus valdari" = Ptychoglyptus irregularis2 Reed 1940
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphus (Neoasaphus) heintzi1 Henningsmoen 1960 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Cyrtometopella tumula Nikolaisen 1961 trilobite