Western side of Røysetangen, Chasmops Shale, 4b (Ordovician to of Norway)

Where: Ringerike, Norway (60.1° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 30.9° S, 9.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Chasmops Shale Formation, Costonian to Costonian (458.4 - 449.2 Ma)

• " Chasmops Shale, 4b"

Environment/lithology: shale and calcareous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: H. Soot-Ryen and T. Soot-Ryen. 1960. The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo region, Norway: 11, Pelecypoda. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 40(2):81-122 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194660: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 25.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta spjeldnaesi Soot-Ryen and Soot-Ryen 1960 clam
 Mytilida - Modiolopsidae
Modiolopsidae sp. Fischer 1885 clam
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
"Ambonychia amygdalina" = Ambonychinia amygdalina
"Ambonychia amygdalina" = Ambonychinia amygdalina Hall 1847 clam
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Vanuxemia sp. Billings 1858 clam
Cyrtodontula sp. Tomlin 1931 clam
Cyrtodontula obliquata Ulrich 1890 clam
Cyrtodontula dubia Soot-Ryen and Soot-Ryen 1960 clam
Cyrtodontula aff. complanata Foerste 1914 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam