Where: Sweden (58.0° N, 15.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.6° S, 7.5° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Dalby Formation, Costonian to Costonian (458.4 - 457.2 Ma)
• Probably the Dalby Fm., but not entirely sure. Same lithology of same age, in same general area.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, calcareous sandstone
Primary reference: P. M. Sheehan. 1977. Swedish Late Ordovician marine benthic assemblages and their bearing on brachiopod biogeography. In J. Grey and A. J. Boucot (eds.), Historical biogeography, plate tectonics, and the changing environment 61-73 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2766: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 18.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Echinosphaerites sp. Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Heliocrinites sp. Eichwald 1840 | |
Strophomenata | |
Bimuria sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942 | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Nicolella sp. Reed 1917 | |
Onniella sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
Trilobita | |
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite | |
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Panderia sp. Volborth 1863 trilobite | |
Sphaerocoryphe sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Tallinnella sp. Opik 1937 ostracod
Sigmobolbina sp. Henningsmoen 1953 ostracod | |
Euprimites sp. Hessland 1949 ostracod
Uhakiella sp. Öpik 1937 ostracod | |
Platybolbina sp. Henningsmoen 1953 ostracod | |
Laccochilina sp. Hessland 1949 ostracod | |
Steusloffia sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1908 ostracod | |
Conchoprimitia sp. Opik 1935 ostracod |