Hjortnestangen, Elnes Fm. (Ordovician to of Norway)

Where: Oslo-Asker, Norway (60.0° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.6° S, 11.0° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Elnes Formation, Kunda to Kunda (469.2 - 464.3 Ma)

• "Ogygiocaris series (4aα)", in Henningsmoen 1960

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified shale and limestone

• Black shale interbedded with limestone and limestone nodules

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. Henningsmoen. 1960. The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway 13. Trilobites of the Family Asaphidae. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 40:203-257 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193296: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 10.05.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ogygiocaris dilatata Brünnich 1781 trilobite