Furuberget, Coelosphaeridium beds (Ordovician of Norway)

Also known as Furuberg

Where: Nes-Hamar, Norway (60.8° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 31.1° S, 9.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Furuberget Formation, Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)

• "Coelosphaeridium beds 4bβ", in Nikolaisen (1961)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

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 191118: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 10.01.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Atractopyge aff. kutorgae Schmidt 1881 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"Kjerulfina lata" = Strophomena lata
"Kjerulfina lata" = Strophomena lata Spjeldnaes 1957