Where: Norway (63.1° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° S, 11.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: D Member, Rhuddanian to Rhuddanian (443.4 - 438.5 Ma)

• "Both the fossil content and the lithology are very similar to the age-equivalent Solvik Fm. of the Oslo region." "Both the macrofaunas and the microfossils definitely indicate an early Llandovery (Rhuddanian) age, possibly just extending into the succeeding Aeronian Stage."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified shale and limestone

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: M. Smelror, R. M. Cocks, A. Mork, B. E. E. Neuman, and H. A. Nakrem. 1997. Upper Ordovician - Lower Silurian strata and biota from offshore South Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 77:251-268 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2914: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 21.07.1999

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